Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...
...feet. Then Bill Kepner moved on to airplanes. In World War II he wore a general's stars, but frequently left his desk to fly combat missions. He was chief of the hard-flying Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, a principal Allied weapon in the destruction of the German Luftwa...
...bold proposal by France's Robert Schuman to pool French and German coal & steel industries (TIME, May 22) produced a burst of hope and revived, with a fresh urgency, the ideal of Western Europe's integration. But as the West set about examining the Schuman idea a little more closely, it also made a lot of people extremely nervous...
...Western Allies have formally protested against the military character of the East German police force; so far, Moscow has ignored the Western notes. But last week the West was preparing a more effective protest. Washington announced that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had asked the West to let his government establish a federal constabulary of 25,000 men. Such a force was necessary to maintain the republic's internal security, argued Adenauer, especially in the face of the continuing streams of refugees from the East. The High Commissioners favored the idea, but would probably scale down the number...
...about truffles in Italy, and has since imported truffle dogs to exploit the natural trufflries (usually oak forests) of New York and New Jersey. Truffle dogs, according to Robba, belong to no special breed. Dogs of mixed ancestry do as well as bluebloods, but such large, muscular breeds as German shepherds are apt to take off after rabbits. Much better are small, snuffly dogs with a good scent and a spirit of cooperation...