Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming from, say, the impeccably rational Frenchmen who only recently applauded student anarchists in Paris. Even so, the U.S. is undeniably starting to lead all advanced Western countries in what Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal calls "the politics of assassination." No French President has been murdered since 1932; West German leaders go virtually unguarded; the last (and only) assassination of a British Prime Minister occurred...
...calls to the factory for a show of solidarity, they prove him right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than one campus commando has reached the same conclusion as Jürgen Horiemann, 26-year-old West German S.D.S. (Socialist Student League) leader. "We simply are not a power factor in society," he says. "We cannot alone carry out our cultural revolution...
...shaped the party's destiny, including the decision to join the rival Christian Democrats in West Germany's historic Grand Coalition. Last week, in a move that was certain to have profound effects not only on the party but also on the workings of the West German government, the Social Democrats stripped Wehner of his role as chief party strategist. "Who am I to give advice?" cried a hurt Wehner. "I am just a renegade...
...first come to the Yard in May 1915, when four Harvard men were among the 1153 passengers who perished when the Cunard liner Lusi-tania was torperoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. In February 1917, Germany resumed her unrestricted submarine warfare. President Wilson severed diplomatic relations--and the nation prepared...
Typical of the Class of 1918 was Eliot Adams Chapin, who on June 27 flew his De Haviland two-seater on a bombing run against a railroad at Thionville, north of Metz. A swarm of German Fokker Scouts atacked the formation, raking Chapin's gas tank with bullets. Witnesses saw Chapin calmly shake hands with his navigator as the De Haviland burst into flames at 1,300 feet...