Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inishmurray is a 100-acre sliver of rock off the northwest coast of Ireland's County Sligo. In World War I, a British destroyer mistook its low-lying shape for a German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...
...brutalities. "Lies, all lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had to be carried from the courtroom. Doctors insisted that she was faking to avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusationsthat she had tattooed prisoners killed so she could have lampshades made of their skinhad been dropped for lack of proof. Ilse, throwing...
...Head (Tallulah Bankhead;. Columbia). For her debut as a pop singer, Tallulah has borrowed Marlene Dietrich's sub-basement baritone and German accent with results that will please curio collectors if not musicians...
...Rommel's widow, his son Manfred, his fellow officers and his orderly. When Rommel, the Desert Fox was published in England last year, it sold 170,000 copies to a chorus of professional applause. As one reviewer noted, Rommel seemed to be "the British army's favorite German general...
...World War I with only the rank of captain, but he sported a couple of Iron Crosses and the order Pour le Mérite, which the Kaiser reserved generally for heroes, e.g., Air Ace Manfred von Richthofen and high-ranking generals. When the Treaty of Versailles cut the German army down to 100,000 men, Rommel was one of 4,000 officers picked to stay...