Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ease. Mrs. Me Cloy's fluent German and friendly manner put the suspicious kids at ease. "Don't talk about this visit when you go home," she warned as they left. "That could be dangerous for you." Replied the blueshirts: "We just have to tell somebody, and we know we can trust our parents-so we'll just tell them...
After lunch, McCloy showed up at RIAS, West Berlin's main radio station, and freely answered political questions fired at him by 300 assembled blueshirts. At the end of the two-hour session Peter Nellen, a member of the West German Bundestag, put a question to them: If the blueshirts were at home, would Gen. Vasily I. Chuikov, East Germany's Russian boss, face them in similar fashion? There was an embarrassed silence, a little laughter, and then a cry of "No!" In Berlin's torn city, kindness, coolness and candor had proved to be the most...
...malgré-nous," the Alsatians called them-malgré-nous meaning "in spite of ourselves." In 1942-44 the German army had drafted 130,000 Alsatians and Lorrainers, in spite of themselves (only a few were pro-Nazi). Most of the still living came home after the war; others, in little groups, came home last week; 13,000 are still missing...
Married. Isaac Stern, 31, top-ranking, young U.S. violinist; and Vera Lindenblit, 24, German-born refugee, former U.N. researcher; he for the second time, she for the first; near Tel Aviv...
Bechet ("I think I'm 60") and his bride, German-born Elizabeth Ziegler, 43, took their vows at the Antibes town hall. Then, while crowds along the way cheered and jitterbugged in the street, they rode in slow procession in an open carriage to Juan-les-Pins, two miles away, for the reception. Ten blaring jazz bands serenaded them along the way. After them came 400 wedding guests, including Music Hall Star Mistinguett and U.S. Vice Consul William Bates. Other celebrators: French army Senegalese, local fishermen, long-haired existentialists from Paris, two men carrying a twelve-foot clarinet, cagefuls...