Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the usual results, but Hitler's seizure of Bohemia and Moravia had two important consequences. First, Chamberlain finally realized that appeasement would not suffice to restrain Hitler. So when Hitler began talking to the Poles in that same month about the Germans' need to regain the port of Danzig, plus free passage through the Polish Corridor, Chamberlain offered the Poles an unsolicited guarantee of British military support. It was that guarantee that Hitler flouted the following September...
Without the slightest warning, Germany's General Walther von Brauchitsch sent the Fourth Army smashing through the disputed Polish Corridor, isolating the Free City of Danzig; the Eighth and Tenth Armies striking over the Vistula plain toward Warsaw; the Fourteenth Army driving across Silesia toward Cracow -- 1.5 million men in all, led by a fearsome new military force, the 2,700 fast-moving panzers (tanks) of the German armored divisions...
...soon in demand for other TV spots, hawking products for Ford, Texas Instruments and Coca-Cola, among others. His latest client, E.F. Hutton, reportedly paid him more than $5 million for a long-term deal. "The advertising business was looking for universality that shatters the color image," says Fred Danzig, editor of Advertising Age. "Cosby does that...
...narrator is explicitly Grass himself. He alludes to his birth and childhood in Danzig (now Gdansk), his service as a Hitler Cub during his early adolescence, and his later authorial relations to one Oskar Matzerath, the hunchbacked, stunted hero of The Tin Drum. Having asked for and received a pet rat as a Christmas present, the speaker begins suffering nightmares in which he must endure diatribes by "the She-rat of my dreams." She complains of, among many other things, the beastly treatment the rat has had to suffer at the hands of humans, dating all the way back...
...Times (circ. 1.1 million), with its 850 staffers and annual profits of $200 million. Though the Herald has much to commend it, including playing up local stories and sometimes producing sprightlier writing than the Times, Hearst seems unsure what to do with its laggard child. Company officials, especially Robert Danzig, general manager of Hearst newspapers, are chronically indecisive about a redesign, despite having commissioned five prototypes over the past eight years, including versions of a tabloid format favored by Acting Editor John Lindsay. He quit in disgust in February. Lindsay is not alone; the positions of publisher, managing and executive...