Word: siegen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein addresses a wounded French soldier: "Well, here is peace." The poilu replies, "At least for 20 years." As the world knows, his timing was tragically correct, almost to the hour, the day and the year...
...White House official said that the Reagan campaign had excluded three reporters, on what appeared to be a political basis: William Greider of Rolling Stone, whose Atlantic Monthly interviews with Budget Director David Stockman raised questions about the integrity of the Reagan budget-planning process; Nashville Tennessean Editor John Siegen-thaler, who served in the Kennedy Administration; and Jerrold Schechter of Esquire, a former TIME correspondent who served in the Carter Administration...