Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department last week from a shaken and cowed John Foster Dulles. Instead of defending the department against McCarthy's latest onslaughts as head of the Senate's Permanent Investigating Subcommittee, Dulles-so the stories ran-had given way to a mood of "panic" and "surrender," pulled a "Munich" and taken "cowardly flight." As a result, said the reports, the Voice of America was "dead," and departmental employees, their morale shattered, were trying to "fade into the wallpaper...
...tough-guy General Sepp Dietrich. Von Rundstedt knew in advance that it would fail; by then a figurehead, he said, "My only prerogative was to change the guard at the gate." Six days before V-E day, the British captured him at Bad Tölz near Munich. They held him in custody for several years, intending to try him for war crimes, freed him in 1949 on the ground of ill health...
...group arrested by the British, which was clever enough to realize that neo-Nazis must avoid the obvious Nazi trappings, the Freikorps deliberately set out to be pennywhistle Hitlers. As such, they were a laughable lot-except to a world that once laughed over the doings in a Munich beer cellar...
...Munich railway station, he almost gave the show away when he called out in English, "All right, Hank, I've got the tickets," but he drew only glares from the crowd. A short distance from the Swiss frontier, they were challenged by a German sentry, but posed as Flemish workingmen and convinced him. That night, less than four days after leaving Colditz, Reid and his friend stopped under a lamppost in a Swiss village and shook hands. Even the British government thought it was a pretty good getaway. Reid's reward: the Military Cross...
Cross Purposes. In Richmond, Sergeant Luther Seldon Jr. arrived home on a 30-day furlough from Munich to surprise his wife, found that she was en route to Germany to surprise...