Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Sept. 4, in its article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining institute, Bergmann-miner. Bergmann, it is true, can mean mountaineer, but only when we are speaking of mountains. In this instance, the term Bergfrauen refers to women who mine...
Having been surreptitiously in the Eastern German city of Aue, the "head of the mountains" in the Erz Gebirge which is a headquarters of the Soviet pitchblende mining enterprise, I should like to report an additional service . . . performed by these Bergfrauen. In the Russian army, as in the late Wehrmacht, commanding officers are authorized to provide bordellos for their commands . . . This aspect of uranium mining (it is actually published in leaflets, which seek to lure workers to the mines) does not seem to have the desired drawing power, however, so more direct methods for the procurement of labor are resorted...
Only in the conference of the Big Three foreign ministers, who were dragging their feet on the question of German rearmament (see INTERNATIONAL), did the old hesitations and half-efforts persist. Otherwise, for the first time in many months, the nation could begin to feel that the track was clear and the train crew knew where it was going...
...California while his assistant division commander, Brigadier General Edward Craig (TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
...years later, Luther himself married Katherine von Bora, an ex-nun, who bore him six children. He became the model for future German papahood, according to Bainton: he appeared to love his children dearly, yet he was stonily unforgiving when disobeyed, and was known to cut up his son's pants to mend his own: he wrote the children gaggingly sentimental letters while he was away from them and sometimes called them "idiots" when he was home...