Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King George V himself felt obliged to discard all such "German Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us" as the Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. While the King became plain Windsor, Prince Louis of Battenberg became a Mountbatten (a literal translation of his German name). Until the day he died in 1921, he never forgot his humiliation. Nor did his second son, Dickie, who was a 14-year-old naval cadet at the time of his father's fall, and vowed to be First Sea Lord...
Weekly Improvement. The strike began last November when 54 Oregonian and Journal stereotypers walked off their jobs in protest against the Oregonian's plans to buy a highly automated German plate-casting machine. When other printing craftsmen followed, Oregonian and Journal brass joined forces, moved into the Oregonian's mechanical department, began putting out a pied, but still readable, combined edition of the Oregonian-Oregon Journal (TIME, Nov. 23). A call for mechanical help went out to nonunion papers throughout the U.S., and the jointly published paper soon was limping along with 72 experienced hands recruited from...
...other ideas: he does not covet the role of Heldentenor. "I have no intention," says he, "of becoming a Wagner specialist. I love Wagner, but I want to sing for 25 years, not ten years. I want to keep my Italian roles, because Italian caresses the voice while German exploits it." Moreover, Vickers refuses to jump into the role of Tristan, as his public and press have urged him to. No dramatic tenor, he reasons, really reaches vocal maturity until he is 38 or 39, and for a part as taxing as Tristan, it takes a few years beyond...
...well off is the average German that a recent survey showed that only one man in three and one woman in six now knows what a loaf of bread costs. There are so many more jobs than workers that Bonn's Labor Ministry plans to bring in 100,000 Italian, Spanish and Greek seasonal laborers this year. Bonn's prediction for 1960: another 6% increase in the nation's G.N.P...
...perpetual game of musical chairs was being played with thrones, and Queen Victoria was at the piano. In 1866, a splendidly mustachioed cavalry officer, one Francis, Duke of Teck, had married Mary Adelaide, the dumpy daughter of a Hanoverian duke of Cambridge. Although Teck was only an inconsiderable German principality, Francis thus won the right to join what the Queen herself called "the Royal Mob" of princelings clustering about Victoria's opulent patronage. They were an oddly innocent lot of hobbledehoys, but dedicated to their business-jobs and titles, endless meals and dressing up, places to live and places...