Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany, he thought the first thing for Germany was "earned equality" on a political basis. Then would be the time to talk about German military units. "I, for one commander, want no unwilling contingents," he said, "no soldier serving in the pattern of the Hessians, in any army of my command...
...clock on a foggy morning last week, the door of Landsberg Prison, where the U.S. holds some 500 German war criminals, swung open. Out came 29 men in rough-fitting ski pants, blue or grey jackets, no ties. They blinked at the waiting crowds. Berthold Krupp rushed up to older brother Alfried, heir to the bomb-shattered steel and munitions empire (only branch producing: the locomotive works), thrust a bouquet of daffodils and tulips into his hands. The two rode off in a black sedan to a champagne breakfast at Landsberg's best hotel...
...cure the trouble. The hottest syndicate at Mar del Plata this year was 20 strong, and raked in earnings estimated as high as 6,000,000 pesos. It was headed by a onetime Nazi sailor, nicknamed El Alemán, who first came to Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly) El Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito...
...renowned early breakfaster, should be in fine form by ten. Professor Levin, who used to give Hum. 2b, can be found at this hour in Harvard 4, lecturing on Proust, Joyce, and Mann in Comp. Lit. 162. You'll need a knowledge of either French or German for this one. People more addicted to the Social Sciences might well check in at Mallinckrodt MB-9 for Fainsod's lectures on Soviet Government. Fainsod is a director of the Russian Research Center and an interesting lecturer...
...mild schoolteacher, watching the light of France die in the eyes of his friends, is seized with a vague wish to die too, and he does, but not until he has gone gun-crazy in a church tower, and shot half a dozen Germans. The cold-eyed homosexual sways through Paris streets, glorying in the death of the social order: "Anything goes!" he cries, and picks up a blond young deserter. The Communist, penned in a freight car with his fellow Frenchmen, smiles grimly as their train rumbles toward a German prison camp: he looks for good fishing...