Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters told the first returning Congressmen confirmed the poll. In Boston, Democratic Representative John McCormack reported invariable assent when he was asked, "What do you think about Berlin, John?" and replied: "It's vitally important for us to be firm-we can't forget the lesson of Munich...
Both Berlin and the Munich Conference of 1939, he stated, are prime examples of crises in which diplomatic negotation followed a theory of bargaining based on threats...
While pointing out that there are important differences between Berlin and Munich, Ellsberg reminded his audience that the final decision to abandon Czechoslovakia to the Nazis hinged on Hitler's determination to make good his threats to start World War II and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's reluctance to fulfill Allied treaties...
...Moscow's Kalinin Constituency, Khrushchev forcefully reminded the world that he could claw as well as slap backs in raucous good fellowship. Angered by the discovery that Britain's Harold Macmillan had come to Moscow with no intention of repeating Neville Chamberlain's performance at Munich, Khrushchev flatly laid down his uncompromising terms on Germany, in such a way as to demonstrate that he was not interested in reasonable accommodations. In doing so, he also inflicted a historic humiliation on Macmillan and paraded his contempt and indifference toward Britain...
...Germans, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a jealously guarded possession, and judgments of any new Bach performer are sharply critical, especially if the performer is a foreigner. But last week a Munich audience applauded a harpsichord recital played by a middle-aged American housewife. As Virginia Pleasants performed Bach's French Overture and a Rameau suite, cognoscenti listened attentively, demanded seven curtain calls...