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Word: municheer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolf, casually mentioned to a German reporter that she had recently visited with "perhaps the only woman my brother ever loved," Günter Peis's news instincts were understandably aroused. The woman turned out to be Maria Reiter, blonde, buxom and 49, now living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret of her uneven romance with Hitler from 1926 into the '305. As Peis reported it in the German weekly, Der Stern, and in the London Sunday Pictorial, it was straight soap opera. But Maria had letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uneven Romance | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...wished I could die," says Maria. On the way back to the car, Hitler told her that his ideal was to marry and have blond children, but that he must save Germany first. After that, there were tète-à-tètes in Hitler's Munich apartment, and they dreamed aloud of their future together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uneven Romance | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Mimi tried hanging herself, finally instead married a hotelkeeper in Seefeld. Then in January 1931, there was a knock on her door. It was Rudolf Hess. "Hitler sent me," he said. "He wants to know if you are happy." Maria got the idea and soon ran off to Munich. There was a touching reconciliation on Hitler's sofa and one breathless Liebesnacht-night of love. Peis quoted Maria: "I let him do what he wanted. I was never so happy." Hitler told her: "Mimilein, I'm rich now. I can offer you everything. Stay with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uneven Romance | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...massive experiment conducted by Adolf Butenandt, 56, who was co-winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for isolating the male sex hormone, androsterone), a research team at Munich's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry imported 1,000,000 silkworm cocoons from Italy and Japan, opened them up with razor blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moth's Allure | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...males will come flocking," said a Munich researcher. "Females, of course, will continue to lay their eggs, but they will be unfertilized. The main advantage over DDT is that no resistant strains are likely to emerge. Whoever heard of a male animal becoming immune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moth's Allure | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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