Word: austria
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...March 1938, when Freud was 81, the Nazis took over Austria, and after some reluctance, he immigrated to England with his wife and his favorite daughter and colleague Anna "to die in freedom." He got his wish, dying not long after the Nazis unleashed World War II by invading Poland. Listening to an idealistic broadcaster proclaiming this to be the last war, Freud, his stoical humor intact, commented wryly, "My last...
Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Austria, Cambodia, England...
...France and the Valais region in Switzerland. This season more than 70 people have died in Europe, which has seen some of the heaviest snowstorms of the past 40 years. Heavy new snow falling on older snow, strong winds and changing temperatures are conditions favorable to avalanches. In Austria, the snowslides roared through the center of the two towns, crushing houses, cars and people. The avalanches have been so frequent and the weather so horrendous that at various times during the past two weeks, as many as 100,000 vacationers have been stranded in Alpine resorts because roads and railroads...
...MINUTES / A DEAD BODY ACHIEVES PUTREFACTION IN 2,880 MINUTES / A LET'S GO INTERVIEW TAKES 20 MINUTES / TIME SENIOR BAR HAS BEEN ON TAP FOR 2,880 MINUTES / CRIMSON KEY TOUR TAKES 90 MINUTES / JACK, A DOG, SURVIVED BURIAL IN AN AVALANCHE IN THE TYROLEAN VILLAGE OF VALZUR, AUSTRIA FOR 1,440 MINUTES
...have taken to using the words car assembler and car developer in place of the old term carmaker. The evolution in language mirrors the development of Magna, whose success Frank Stronach couldn't even have begun to dream about in 1954, when, at age 22, he left his native Austria for Canada with $200 in his pocket and about the same number of English words in his vocabulary. Three years later he managed to start up a tool-and-die shop in a rented garage in downtown Toronto, and in 1960 he signed a contract with General Motors to produce...