Word: bavarians
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...chief beneficiary of a Free Democratic defection would be the opposition alliance of the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian affiliate, the Christian Social Union, who together have 234 seats in the Bundestag. Schmidt's S.D.P. has 242 seats and the Free Democrats have 42. The so-called Union parties would be invited to join in a new coalition. If they refused, the result could be dissolution of the Bundestag and a call for an early national election the Christian Democrats might well win. The latest polls indicate that they would probably get 53% of the popular vote, compared...
...searching for some time for a way to establish himself and gain the respect of his colleagues. A paper by a German physician named Theodor Aschen-brandt seemed to provide the way. Conquistadores had noted the stimulant effect of coca leaves on Andean Indians. Aschenbrandt tried the drug on Bavarian soldiers and cautiously reported that while suppressing their hunger, it also increased their mental powers and capacity to endure strain...
...Britain, France and Russia imposed monarchy on Greece after it won independence from the Ottoman Empire. In 1862, after forcing the abdication of the first king, a Bavarian prince named Otho, the three powers offered the throne to Prince William of Denmark, who became George I of Greece, the first of the Glucksburg monarchs...
...four children: Lionel, 14, Beatrice, 13, and Nicola, 2; Daughter Dominique, 21, recently made him a grandfather. Andre has a habit of taking long walks and practicing his trumpet deep in the woods. Early one morning after a concert in Munich, Andre drove out to a meadow in the Bavarian woods and began blowing. Three men armed with rifles suddenly ran toward him furiously. They were hunters who had been lying in wait since dawn; Andre had scared off the first deer of the day. His departure was like a Vivaldi fast movement-allegro vivace...
...aging Watson or the youthful Meyer--he has created this tale out of the stuff of the traditional Holmes canon in a brilliant and startling fashion. The Reichenbach Falls death-struggle of the Final Problem has been elevated here to a hellish showdown above a train careening through the Bavarian mountainscape. The Moriarty mystique has been defused until it becomes simply Holmes's refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation...