Word: zwei
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...major disturbance. To be sure, there are some signs of disquiet. Some 1,135 East Germans last year managed to flee over the wall to the West. At one point during last week's celebrations, 200 restless young East Berliners paraded down Unter den Linden chanting: "Eins, zwei, drei, Sex!" But they knew better than to shout anything more defiant-such as demands for political reforms. Culturally, Ulbricht maintains such a tight rein that most of Evgeny Evtushenko's poetry is proscribed, and even some recent Soviet films have been banned as "unsafe." Determinedly apolitical, most of East...
...General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...
...more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews who died that year in Auschwitz' deadly shower rooms were 52 members of the family of Malchiel Greenwald. Malchiel himself managed to escape, found his way to Palestine, and cast his lot and his hopes for the future with the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the party that fought with the fiercest zeal against the British for Israel nationalism. But uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed...
From the British loudspeaker a voice began: "Achtung! Bitte Melden! Elizabeth Schmidt, mit zwei Kindern" Frau
...starched manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...