Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sicily to Munich. Between the war dance and the Broadway parade, the Thunderbirds followed a long and bloody trail of soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action...
Bloch, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1938 after graduating from the Technical Center in Munich, has recently made use of radioactive carbon as a tracer in investigating the metabolism of amino acids. He holds the Harvey Medal for medical research...
...Civilized." In little longer than the "twinkling of an eye" so popular in older fairy tales, they were in Munich, and Father Georgescu-who had been notified of their release while on a business trip to Ankara, Turkey, and had flown to meet them-was clasping them in his arms. Twenty-six hours later, after a transatlantic flight, they were hugging their pretty, 46-year-old mother in New York...
...spearhead of social reform." Its passage in 1944 gave him senior status in the party, and Cabinet rank as the first Minister of Edu cation. But the "Butler Act" did more. In the public's view, Rab's name no longer stood for a man of Munich, but for a leader of social reform. When the time came, Butler was the logical choice as the spokesman for the new progressive Toryism...
...Munich court ended a three-year legal squabble over some grubby last effects of the late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy...