Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nchner is someone who combines the punctuality of the Austrian with the charm of the Prussian...
Soviet Union entered the palatial Allied Control building in West Berlin, once the seat of the Prussian High Court. Then, seated at a long oak table, each man signed his name no fewer than twelve times. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush welcomed the agreement "as a sign of the Soviet Union's desire to move from confrontation to negotiation." Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov threw out his hands and shouted: "All's well that ends well...
...behind is France's Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen, who briefly led Napoleon Ill's army during the Franco-Prussian War and deserves special mention for his ingenious plan to break through the Prussian lines. Wimpffen's scheme placed France's combat forces on one side of the enemy and their supply lines on the other, at the same time leaving Paris completely unprotected...
...observed, "it is the last 20 minutes that count." Last week there were strong rumors in Bonn that the four-power Berlin talks, now in their 17th month, might be approaching the 20-minute countdown. When the Big Four ambassadors meet this week in West Berlin's old Prussian High Court Building, they are expected to make it a marathon session that may last three days. Speculation was that they are ready to hammer out the last kinks in an "umbrella agreement" on the city's status. Such a breakthrough could not come at a more fitting moment...
...When World War I came, the French were ready to fight the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. When World War II began, the Allies were ready to fight World War I. It is heartening to know, from the arguments of President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers justifying the present level of U.S. troop strength in Europe [June 14], that we are ready for World War II if it should break out. STEVEN KOENIG Van Nuys, Calif...