Word: schenken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Howard Schenken, 75, champion contract bridge player and theorist; of a brain tumor; in Palm Springs, Calif. Abandoning billiards for bridge when he was in his 20s, Schenken played on four world-title teams and won a record five Life Master Pair Championships during his 50-year career, as well as devised such now standard game practices as the prepared opening bid, the weak two-bid and the forcing two-over-one response...
Porter does well with Brünnhilde's noble, ardent "Willst du mir Minne schenken" sung to Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. Wagner wrote...
Willst du mir Minne schenken, gedenke deiner nur, gedenke deiner Taten, gedenk' des wilden Feuers, dasfurchtlos du durchschrittest, da den Pels es rings umbrann...