Word: walther
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...role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman Emperor. "Grass," says Schwarz, "is the only great German writer in 700 years to take such a direct part in politics, laying aside...
Historian Irving argues that lack of governmental support was the basic cause of the Nazis' nuclear failure. But some of his anecdotes suggest that the German scientists themselves were at fault. After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"-the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway...
Harvard's Terry Flanagan won the 200 yard backstroke. While Buzz Cummings and Doug Walther chalked up Crimson victories in the 200 yard backstroke and 200 yard butterfly, respectively...
...spend all my time thinking over what's happened and trying to make sense of it all. It's the kind of thing that can drive you out of your mind." She selects details oddly, noting explicitly that her mother's gun was a Walther automatic but remarking about her first marriage only that it ended "for reasons of a personal nature." Neither her exile nor her last husband, Brajesh Singh, whom she loved and mourned, are mentioned in the book. She says she "cannot live without God . . . the ultimate triumph of good over evil...
Among the condemned were Actor Walther Bethke (1943) and the Rev. Josef Muller (1944), who were executed for cracking private jokes about Hitler. A country doctor was sentenced to death simply for telling a pregnant patient that she was courageous to have a baby in the fifth year of the war-an aspersion, as the court saw it, on Nazi chances of victory. When Lawyer Reinhart Freiherr von Godin wrote a letter consoling the sister of a friend condemned by the court, Von Godin too was arrested and executed for "slandering the people and the Reich...