Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes from hands to hands." "Let's do more of this," suggested an impressionist painter from Czechoslovakia. "It is much better to exchange books than missiles." Most of the letters were in good English, a few in German...
...Keep it up-we're winning," cried the Laborite weekly Tribune. "Now Germans join great campaign!" Last week 40 prominent West German politicians, trade unionists, professors, authors and theologians issued a proclamation demanding that the government keep out of any atomic armament race and "support all efforts for an atom-free zone in Europe." Next week the committee called "Fight Against Atomic Death," composed of Socialists and Evangelical churchmen, will make its public debut with a mass rally in Frankfurt. As in Britain, the Florence bomb proved a windfall to the cause, and Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung nervously...
...Marlboro, Mass., faculty and students of Marlboro High School chose 18-year-old Ilse Naujoks, third-ranking student in her class, for a good-citizenship award given annually by the Daughters of the American Revolution, got turned down flatly by the Daughters. Reason: Ilse, daughter of German refugee parents, has never been naturalized. With unsinkable illogic, National D.A.R. President General Mrs. Frederic A. Groves explained the ban: "It is natural to assume that a good-citizenship award in a high school in the U.S. would go to a citizen of this country...
...church has its revered relics, e.g., some handwrought nails from war-damaged Coventry Cathedral and a stone from the German castle where Martin Luther hid in 1521 while translating and revising the Greek New Testament. But these rank as no more than details blended into the revolutionary design which, says the Rev. Donald Fisher Campbell, senior pastor, "gives a sense of the presence of the Almighty...
Life with Mother. Leonhard is the sort of stylist who would rewrite Alice in Wonderland as The Bourgeois Illusions and Degenerate Fantasies of a British Middle-Class Female Child. He was 13 when his mother, a German Communist and a refugee from Hitler in Sweden, took him to the Soviet Union. There were thousands like them in Moscow. It was 1935, the eve of the Great Purge. Little Wolfgang was lodged, with other foreign youngsters, in Children's Home No. 6, then briefly among Russians in a grim Dotheboys Hall called the Spartak Children's Home. At school...