Word: linguistical
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Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...marched with another touring VIP, Germany's sturdy old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in a solemn convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Awarding her an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Columbia cited her as more than a queen. Said the citation: "A gifted musician, accomplished linguist, and understanding student of the arts...
...Indo-China is one of the oldest and most successful examples of Christian outreach in the Far East. Missionaries were established in Indo-China long before the French colonizers arrived. Among the most successful of these was 25-year-old Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes of Avignon. A brilliant linguist, within six months Father de Rhodes began transforming the character writing of Vietnamese into a Romanized script. He rapidly built up a native clergy, which kept the church strong during periods of persecution under unfriendly monarchs...
...said in the hearing caused the board to comment, mildly enough, that Oppenheimer was even now being "less than candid." The most telling example of Oppenheimer's past capacity for untruths was drawn out in cross-examination about his relationships with his good friend Haakon Chevalier, a linguist who was once a professor at the University of California...
...hearings to nothing else, they will give Mr. Fowler's remains a measure of morbid exercise, gyrating in the grave with the pomp that the gentle linguist always deplored...