Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influential German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung observed: "We have learned at Seoul and Taejon that there are too few tanks and guns, and the steel for them is now to be supplied by the Germans . . . People beyond our borders are more and more coming to understand how little the Western world can afford the division into victors and vanquished...
...Russians have a staggering edge on the Western Allies. There are at least 750 first-line jet and piston fighters on the Reds' 29 East German airfields; attack and dive bombers are present in impressive force...
...Russian attack does come, most experts think it would be in the form of a double-pronged tank and infantry rush across the North German plain and down the Channel coast; smaller units would be committed to destroy U.S. forces in Bavaria, while Soviet reinforcements from the east would pour steadily in through Czechoslovakia and Poland...
Next fall, during their regular nine-week language period, Headmaster Clark plans to send other students to Mexico to study Spanish. Next spring, it will be Luxembourg for German. When U.S. colleges get the present crop of Kiski boys, Clark hopes, they will find them as interested in studies as in football. And they may find that some of them are good football...
...rocket was a "piggyback" combination : a small Wac Corporal set in the nose of a German V2. An earlier test the week before had been a fizzle (a fuel pump went haywire), but this time the V-2 roared up and turned east over the ocean. In one minute and 20 seconds it reached an altitude of 51,000 ft. and a speed of 1,700 m.p.h...