Word: prussia
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...Communists also insist that a reunified Germany stop at the Oder-Neisse line, leaving Silesia and Pomerania in Red Poland and most of East Prussia to the Russians. Both Red Poland and East Germany have served notice that this border is final and "forever...
...scorn for Prussians, is by heritage and career a Bavarian (which, as regional patriotism goes among Germans, is something like being a Texan). Jaeger regards it as his everlasting misfortune that, when he was born, his parents happened to be in Berlin, deep in the heart of Prussia. "The course Germany took under Prussia's leadership," he warned the Bundestag recently, his eyes flashing behind his rimless spectacles, "ended with blood, tears and catastrophe...
...industrial revolution the Japanese borrowed the factory (Japan got steel mills almost as early as home looms); from the English they borrowed Parliament, from the Latins a brawling way of running it, and from Tammany Hall the ways to get around it. The new Japanese army was modeled after Prussia's, the navy after Britain's, and the battleships came by way of the latest designs of Clydeside and Newport News, Va. The Japanese bought Manhattan's disassembled Sixth Avenue Elevated as scrap iron (and returned it later with a bang). They also borrowed, from Britain...
...MacArthur was so magnificently right, advancing by more than 100 amphibious landings to his promised Philippine return. An oldtime Leavenworth command-school lecturer with a flair for the drama of military history, Willoughby compares MacArthur's capture of New Guinea outposts with Napoleon's campaigns, in East Prussia, and shows with maps that the boss took Hollandia by the same classic double envelopment that won Cannae for Hannibal. The distance covered in MacArthur's advance from Australian bases was "at least twice that encompassed by Napoleon, Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great in their most extended campaigns...
London's Economist, called the right to bus jump "one of the symbols that distinguishes Britain from Prussia." But letter writers complained to their favorite papers that bus jumping "by athletic, predatory men" was un-English. Bus drivers themselves met the crisis with the required tact. At Trafalgar Square traffic lights, when one Londoner leaped aboard, the conductor grinned and addressed the passengers, "Shall I chuck him off or give him a medal?" As lights halted another bus at Lower Regent Street, the conductor bellowed cheerfully, "Stand by to repel boarders...