Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time with the weakest and ripest falling first," he said in a radio broadcast. "But if, following Korea, the Kremlin directs an attack of the Chinese Communists down into Indo-China or into Burma, or of the Bulgarian Communists into Greece or into Turkey, or of the East German and Polish Communists into Western Germany . . . and if the U.S. attempts to meet each of those aggressions where they occur ... we will become a giant pinned to the earth...
Goums and French Foreign Legion troops are holding the outpost of Dong-dang. The Goums-bearded, bemedaled, fierce-eyed North African troops-are savage, close-quarter fighters whose physical courage seems to have no limits. Many of the legionnaires are German-lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades. Among them are veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps. I asked Dupuis how he got on with them...
...Gruber had any one thing to teach, it was the value of a return to the 15th and 16th Century German masters he himself most admired: Matthias Grünewald, Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Their art had been as strictly delineated, and often as sad and bitter cold as his, though far more ambitious. Had he lived, Gruber might conceivably have come to paint a Crucifixion as great as Grünewald's. He never got beyond showing how pathetic a nude model and how forbidding a winter landscape can look...
...officers for a pay raise. Aboard the 49,850-ton, 936-ft. Liberté were Actress Irene Dunne, TV Star Jack Carter, French Line's President Jean Marie and 1,317 other passengers, few of whom could see any signs that the Liberte had once been the North German Lloyd's proud Europa...
Such impious bad taste mars these otherwise simple but forced folk tales, which have gone into seven editions in Italy. Author Guareschi is a magazine editor who spent much of the war in German concentration camps and has now been singled out as a class enemy by no less a figure than Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. Guareschi is a whole imagination away from the "Italian James Thurber" that his publishers hopefully label him, but The Little World is a dual Book-of-the-Month Club selection, which ought to please them just as much...