Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the 50,000 nature-lovers who spilled over Germany's borders last week, money was more to be cherished than spent. Though most German campers are monolingual, they can rattle off one phrase in three or four languages: "Mister, would you mind if I set up my tent on your property?" It is a highly important phrase, because by using it, the German camper saves the 25? charged by official camping grounds...
...intervention, U.S. marines marched in and out of Caribbean capitals and customs houses to protect U.S. investments for nearly three decades. By the time of the Good Neighbor Policy, the doctrine was in bad repute. It has not been invoked since it was expanded to protect Greenland from German seizure...
There was much of the past that ex-Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 39, wanted to forget. Behind her were 31 movies, a divorce from sleek Couturier Oleg Cassini, a retarded daughter (Gene had German measles during the pregnancy) and five years, off and on, as a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Last week she decided that she was strong enough to make a clean break with those bad bygone years. In Aspen, Colo.'s Community Church, she married Houston Oilman W. (for William) Howard Lee, 51, freshly divorced from his second wife, ex-Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr. Lee had courted...
...Threepenny Opera (Brandon Films) is a re-release of the German musical satire made in 1931 by Director G. W. Pabst and destroyed-or so it was thought-soon afterward by the Nazis...
...West; of heart disease; in Bad Nauheim, Germany. A career soldier and World War I pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war's start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British in 1947 for the reprisal massacre of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome, he got the sentence commuted to life and then...