Search Details

Word: potzsch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...land of Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright, the silver-medal performance by Linda Fratianne at Lake Placid four years ago was considered a slip-up (the gold went to East German Anett Potzsch). But it is not standard for U.S. women to be fighting among themselves the way they are now; so evenly, that is. Sumners beat Zayak in the 1982 nationals, only to have Zayak rebound a few weeks later at the Worlds, and a sequined hair-pull has been in progress ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear the Way For the U.S.A. | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Chapter 6: Sabotage. In Berlin Captain Stevens got busy making confessions. He admitted 15 cases of sabotage on German, Italian, Japanese ships, most of which were actually pulled off by a certain designer of infernal machines named Waldemar Potzsch, a German-born British spy. When Potzsch was arrested in Denmark, Captain Stevens had the job of persuading the Danes to let him go, even though he was found to possess plans of a large German ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

| 1 |