Word: prussian
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...there were a score of issues over which France and Britain might have fought. They were old enemies and current imperial rivals. Yet they did not fight: the French had little chance against British sea power; the British had little interest in destroying the French check on Austrian and Prussian land power. Britain and France were not "ripe...
...Jews of Europe had to wear long curls; many young Israelis of Tel Aviv favor crew cuts in the American-or Prussian-style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
...except perhaps Joseph Stalin") knew whether war was near. Wars had been touched off by pretty eyes (1200 B.C.), by a garbled telegram (1870), and even by Jenkins' ear (1739). But most wars, including the Trojan, the Franco-Prussian, and that of Jenkins' ear, are caused not by incidents but by somebody's belief that he can get something by war that he cannot get any other...
...other hand, he undoubtedly would have used it routinely in conjunction with dors, had one of the Waterloo skeletons bitten him, especially one wearing Prussian buttons...
...Single Family." In 1922, Aristide Briand, greatest of France's 20th that it Century must "unite"- internationalists, not only warned "to prosper" but "to live." This was only four years after the "war to end war." In 1871, when France was crumbling under Prussian force, the author of Les Miserables spoke up. Said Victor Hugo: "I will demolish my fortresses. You will demolish yours. My vengeance, it is fraternity. No more frontiers, the Rhine for all! Let us be the same Republic! Let us have the United States of Europe, let us have Continental federation, let us have European...