Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on West Germany, makes the clauses obsolete. Nonetheless, all three decided to put it in writing for the Kremlin after the Russians coupled their Czech invasion with an intense propaganda attack on Bonn. Both Pravda and Izvestia responded to the allied notes with fresh complaints of West German "militarism and revanchism...
Growing Consternation. On another level, Moscow is reacting to deep-seated fears of a new German Drang nach Osten (thrust to the East). Since 1966, when Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt began courting the countries of East Europe, their policy has proved eminently successful. It won diplomatic recognition for Bonn from Rumania, a strong hint of recognition from Hungary, and increased trade from other nations...
...found constant stimulation in working with such World staffers as Heywood Broun, Maxwell Anderson and Franklin P. Adams. "Never," he writes, "was a more fascinating and gifted company assembled" by any newspaper anywhere. Nor, perhaps, was a more inveterately awful group of punsters ever assembled. During a discussion of German poets, for example, Krock recalls that Swope asked his editors, "Who was Kleist?" Adams' immediate reply: "The Chinese Messiah...
Interest in a first-year German course, German A, seems about average, Weber said...
Weber added that German D, also a second-year course, would probably be larger than usual this year, but he called D a "more advanced" course "for people who really want to learn German." German C is more often used for fulfilling the requirement, he said...