Word: rejoins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Saarlanders, prosperous beyond their wildest dreams of five years ago, let their stomachs-and memories-decide. In 1935, after voting-90%-to rejoin the Reich, the Saarlanders heard Adolf Hitler promise: "In ten years' time, you won't know your city of Saarbrücken." Hitler was right: by 1945 the entire Saar basin was a heap of smoldering ruins...
...vote will decide whether Joho Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or the Social Democrats will dominate the Saar Landtag for the next few years; actually, it will demonstrate whether the 968,000 Saarlanders want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days of 1947. Those in favor of Germany are at a legal disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German underground," are infiltrating Saarbr...
...German feet," to the shopkeeper who put up a sign after five years of selling France's matchless Burgundies: "At last, the good wines of Germany are back again." Nub of the German argument: let the Saar decide for itself, and it will rush to rejoin the fatherland...
Following a month's visit with her mother in New Jersey, Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer boarded a plane for Mexico City to rejoin her husband, Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Before she left, Sloan smilingly pooh-poohed rumors that she would divorce His Excellency...
...angry miners and homesteaders, Conte kills off crooked Land-Grabber Morris Ankrum, who is trying to keep California from statehood. Fortunately, just as Conte is about to be hanged for Ankrum's death, California joins the Union, a general amnesty is declared, and he is free to rejoin beautiful Viveca Lindfors, who plays the daughter of a dispossessed old Mexican family but speaks with a charming Swedish accent. When the scenario doesn't get in the way, the moviegoer can enjoy some handsome California scenery...