Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many pallbearers, but the most prominent, after Adolf Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands." In 1934, his green-shirted private army...
...Erding, the base near Munich from which they had flown their C-47 39 days ago, they were enveloped by a heartfelt greeting from families and friends. Next day, after military intelligence officers and a State Department specialist had quizzed the airmen, the four faced a swarm of newsmen and photographers. As commander of the aircraft, Captain Henderson told how the captives had fared at the hands of the Reds. As he spoke, he fumbled nervously with typewritten notes; at times his voice broke with emotion...
While NATO has been building up an army in Europe,* what has the Red army been doing? Reports from behind the Iron Curtain to TIME'S correspondents in Berlin, Bonn, Munich and Vienna add up to this answer: Russia is standing pat on its 450,000 soldaty, keeping them in top fettle, making no moves that directly indicate offensive intentions...
Factory Hazards. Author Payne, who now lives in Montevallo, Ala., was born in Cornwall, the son of a French mother and a British naval architect. He went to school in England and Africa, later studied whatever pleased him in Munich and at the Sorbonne. For a time he worked as a shipwright in England, then, in 1939, he got a job in the yards at Singapore. By that time his books were getting published (one under the pseudonym Valentin Tikhonov). In 1941 he went to China for the British Ministry of Information, wound up with successive jobs at Fuhtan...
...then took it home to Bavaria. Eventually he wrote to the abbot of Monte Cassino, offering to return the picture if he was hired to repair it himself. U.S. Occupation authorities traced the letter, briskly reclaimed the painting and sent it on to the Bavarian State Picture Gallery in Munich for authentification...