Word: teutonicisms
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> Ford of West Germany's Taunus 12M is the Teutonic version of the Cardinal, the small car which Ford originally intended to produce in the U.S. as well. The 12M has a V-4 engine that drives the front wheels. Price: $1,500. > Ford of Britain's Cortina...
*Without mentioning what was then the most closely guarded of Gaullist secrets: the fact that his maternal great-great-grandfather was born in Germany. De Gaulle's Teutonic ancestor was Ludwig Phillip Kolb, a barber-surgeon in Napoleon's army, who was born in Grotzingen in 1761 and...
Swedes practice nudism with erotic grace, the French with gay abandon; British nudists even manage to shed the stiff upper lip. Among West Germans, unzipping has become a solemn Teutonic cult whose practitioners rarely even wear a smile. Banned by the Nazis as "one of the greatest dangers to German...
German nudists address each other as Lichtfreund (friend of light), scorn normal bathing areas where clothes are worn as "textile" beaches. Broad-beamed male and female nudists delight in taking group setting-up exercises, sail, water-ski and throw cocktail parties in the buff. The nudists' chief foe is...
In the field, German technicians are somewhat handicapped by the fact that English is the most commonly spoken foreign tongue in Asia and Africa. In addition, the steaming climate of many underdeveloped countries tends to debilitate the Teutonic constitution. Said one expert, recently returned from a swing through Southeast Asia...