Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Washington, when a special Immigration and Naturalization Service board rejected her ninth appeal, the public for the first time was given some indication of why Ellen Knauff, German-born bride of a naturalized U.S. citizen, would not be allowed to enter the U.S. Three Government witnesses, including a former Czech army major, had testified that she spied on U.S. Army Occupation Forces in Germany for the Czechoslovak government shortly before the 1948 Communist coup. Under the law, aliens may be excluded on a reasonable suspicion of espionage or subversion-conclusive proof is not required. Mrs. Knauff...
Suddenly the light turned green. Russia had some new propositions: it would drop its insistence on discussing alleged violations of the Potsdam agreement, drop its demand that German rearmament be a separate agenda subject, agree to talk not only about disarming but also about the level of existing armaments...
...Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose. Alaskan settlers corrupted a powerful drink of the Hutsnuwu Indians into hooch, changed hiu muckamuck, the Chinook words meaning "plenty to eat," into a high-muck-a-muck, a "person of importance." From the German gunsmiths of Pennsylvania came rifle, probably out of riffel, the word for groove. The Dutch produced koekje (cookies); and their word for dung-pappekak-eventually turned into poppycock...
...police raids last week, the East German Communists officially suppressed Christian Science. It was a repetition of their move last September against the Jehovah's Witnesses: offices and meeting places were padlocked without warning, literature was confiscated, and Christian Scientists themselves were threatened with arrest unless they stopped all practice of their religion...
...James (Tobacco Road) Barton emerges with credit; he gives a salty performance as a turkey-raising hermit who befriends the escaped asylum inmate. Scripter-Director E. A. Dupont garnishes the picture's disjointed hokum with meticulous pictorial compositions that serve as hollow reminders of his eminence as a German director (Variety...