Word: tyrolean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the old graduates were also happy to have the friendly German on hand. The entire tenth reunion class, according to the Herald, the Class of 1924, showed up dressed in Bavarian costume, right down to the Tyrolean hats. The Boston Herald reported that "because the doctor had traveled 3,000 miles there was a Harvard version of the goose step, executed with as much snap as unsteady feet could muster ....An Americanized approximation of the Nazi salute replaced the hand shake...
...games began with the familiar splendid pageantry: athletes in the uniforms of 37 nations marched past the box occupied by Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlager. Overhead, helicopters unfurled the Austrian, Olympic and Tyrolean flags. A three-gun howitzer salute preceded the lighting of the Olympic flame, symbol of the history and fellowship of the quadrennial games...
...present emerges not from the director's intended wit but from the viewer's incredulity that anyone would deliberately film something so ludicrous. A special idiocy derives from the disparity between the Alpine-Munich situations and the dubbed American English. Just imagine a German mountain guide in shorts and Tyrolean hat giving directions in flawless New Yorkese...
After brooding over the case for more than a year-while Altmann swaggered around in a green Tyrolean hat, usually accompanied by a tough young bodyguard-the Bolivian Supreme Court finally demanded that the question of Altmann's identity be officially settled. Altmann admits to using the name Barbie as a pseudonym; he also has a birth certificate in that name and has received mail from the Barbie family in Germany. But he is a Bolivian citizen who claims that he has broken no Bolivian law. The French argue, however, that the fugitive acquired Bolivian citizenship by fraud...
...economic equality. In any given office building in Brussels, a Belgian saying goes, the doorman speaks only Dutch, the secretaries are bilingual and the managing director deals only in French. In Italy's Alto Adige region, severed from Austria by diplomatic fiat after World War I, German-speaking Tyrolean terrorists committed some 200 bombings and other acts of violence in the 1960s before Rome agreed to a measure of autonomy. Still, streets are known as both via and strasse, and many towns are known by entirely different names to their German-speaking residents and Italian officialdom...