Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splitting the Sea. Along the actual border, blue-jacketed troopers of the East German People's Police (Vopos) hewed a narrow gash, 850 miles long and eleven yards wide. Behind it they systematically gouged the life out of a 5,000-yard "dead zone" across which none dared pass, razing forests and farmhouses, smashing villages and tossing 22,000 Germans out of their cottages along the eleventh meridian.* Eight thousand refugees clutching clothes and cooking utensils risked the Vopos' guns and fled to West Germany...
...main street. Miller Wurziger's grain mill stood in the way, so the Vopos tore it down. Wurziger and his son jumped from an upstairs window of their house and dragged Frau Wurziger to safely through the pig sty. Of Mödlareuth's 18 East zone families, six have fled to the West, four "political unreliables" have been dragged farther East...
...Occupied Zone. In Sydney, Australia, William C. R. Turner was granted a divorce after he charged that his wife's lover 1) lived at the Turner home for 18 months, entering and leaving by Mrs. Turner's bedroom window, 2) beat him up, and 3) regularly chased him into the street...
...nationalism" or "contrariness" or the cynical fatalism of ohne mich (count me out), but a combination of many things. Professed horror of a new war. Fear that West Germany is saying goodbye to a third of its land and 18 million brothers encased in Russia's East zone (not to mention the equally large chunk of Germany gobbled by Communist Poland). Understandable reluctance to take up arms that might some day be used against Germans in the East. The desire for a return of all that was German beyond the Elbe. The vision of a neutral, unified Germany situated...
...Lina Elise Grey, widow of the prolific sagebrush writer Zone Grey, offered his collection of manuscripts, seashells, big-game and fish trophies to Zanesville, Ohio, if the home town would promise to house them in a suitable memorial...