Word: rhineland
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...third and final event of the evening, Robert Schumann’s “Symphony No. 3,” is an ode to the Rhineland full of passion and romance. Despite its well-known and well-loved opening theme, “Symphony No. 3” is rarely played in modern times because it poses many problems regarding orchestration. The solo lines are often masked by the rest of the orchestra and the final sound is a bit raw. Regardless, it is a fantastically energizing musical romance...
...enticement: "I have been waiting for the Americans since I was a child," says retired engineer Corneliu Ribu, 74, who lives in Bucharest. "I thought that they would never come." In Germany, rumors that U.S. troops may be leaving in large numbers sent shock waves through some regions. The Rhineland-Palatinate, home to Ramstein air base, organized a committee to convince the Pentagon that staying was cost-effective. "The U.S. forces bring around j1.4 billion a year into our community," said Peter Grüssner, the state's point man on troop issues. "If they were to leave on short...
This same pattern of weakness and ineffectiveness was repeated throughout the mid-1930s, as Hitler’s illegal rearmament and militarization of the Rhineland were sadly tolerated. While the League was compelled to act when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia in the summer of 1935, the result was only limited “sanctions”—(sound familiar?)—on the Fascist government. Britain and France, charged with formulating the League’s punishment of Italy, had economic and geo-political interests that discouraged them from taking a stronger stance...
...called a drive for "class instead of mass." But German consumers discovered last week that buying pricey organic products is no protection against tainted food. Officials reported that large amounts of organic animal feed used by 120 organic farms in Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt had been contaminated with a banned herbicide called Nitrofen. As a result, farmers said, at least 98,000 chickens would be destroyed. Worse, a number of big food chains like Metro announced that all organic products such as eggs, poultry and even beef are being pulled from...
...small matter, really, but there is still a word for what the Bush administration did to get our men and women home from Hainan. It is a word from an earlier time, when a fascist state wanted not Taiwan and the South China Sea, but Danzig and Vienna, the Rhineland and Prague...