Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler), 28; and John Loder, 45, British-born actor; each for the third time; same day he divorced his second wife; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Vienna-born cinemactress' first two ecstasies were Austrian Munitions-Maker Fritz Mandl and American Scenarist Gene Markey...
...defense lines in southeastern Europe. One line starts on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, curves south along the ragged border of Turkey to Alexandroupolis and Salonika, then cuts across Greece to Corfu and the Adriatic Sea. The second starts at the mouth of the Danube, runs up to Vienna and the Alps. The third follows the Danube to Vienna, then runs along the northern spur of the Carpathians to the main German defense lines in Poland...
...dates from the late 19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna in the '90s. The very finest ocarinas were manufactured from the mud of the beautiful blue Danube...
Otto of Habsburg's dream of marching into conquered Vienna at the head of an Austrian battalion in the U.S. Army has come...
...German total offensive against Russia this year will constitute a supreme effort at the final destruction of Russian military power . . . gas from the two great factories outside Vienna that have been working at high pressure for the last six months will be used where