Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Communist press screamed out against the "rape of the Saar." Adenauer showed that he was not immune to the powerful German temptation to play East and West against each other. Said he: "When things like this happen in the West, how in the world can one say anything against Poland because of the Oder-Neisse line...
...calm. It pointed to a clause in the Franco-Saar accord which said the whole deal could be changed by an Allied peace treaty with Germany. Everybody knew that France was going to get the Saar, but there was general regret that the French had warmed the embers of German nationalism by taking it in the most tactless possible manner...
...Only Heir." The sober Frankfurter Rundschau listed contradictions in the German and French positions. Then it said: "The statesmen of Europe seem to have reached the end of their wisdom-or of their courage. Don't they see that they cannot continue this policy of thoughtlessness, that it must inevitably end in social chaos, and that the only heir of such a state is Stalin...
...Call on him," said the Chief Justice.. Fuchs stood up in the dock, read a statement from notes in a high, tinny voice, barely intelligible underneath his heavy German accent. "I have had a fair trial," he said, "and I wish to thank you, My Lord . . ." Then Lord Goddard leaned forward on his bench; a chill passed through the courtroom...
Last week busy salesmen, speaking a guttural Spanish, were showing just such a machete to Colombian hardware dealers. It was the German Mosquito-brand machete, and its agents said that they could deliver it for $2 a dozen less than any U.S. knife. A standard Collins machete, made in Collinsville, Conn., costs $14 a dozen, and does not always offer the prized (though nonessential) nickel finish...