Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Therefore, we must quickly get a genuine Western army and a Western general staff. Any idea of a separate German army is obvious nonsense, and we don't have to discuss it. A Western army must be organized in which the Germans can join...
...Smuts swung South Africa to the Allies, helped capture German SouthWest Africa. Later he led the campaign that won German East Africa. He was summoned to London as the only dominion member of the British War Cabinet. It was Smuts who proposed the new name-soon adopted-for the British Empire: "The British Commonwealth of Nations...
...World War I, as the Allied-German lines swayed and writhed across France, the same towns came again & again into the news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
...will stand." He also said: "Why do we not . . . assault . . . the whole swarm of the Roman Sodom . . . and wash our hands in their blood?" Then for a year he went into hiding in the Wartburg, there to begin his translation of the Bible, a work as fundamental to the German language as the King James version is to English...
Back in Wittenberg, the Reformation had begun. Many priests, monks and nuns were leaving the cloister and getting married. Mass was celebrated in plain clothes, and parts of it recited in German. The laity took the cup of Communion to its own lips, and it smashed the images of the saints...