Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elim massacre-the most savage assault on whites in Rhodesia's history -was part of a rising tide of violence that threatens to engulf the breakaway British colony. Only days after Elim, two German Jesuits were killed by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Rupert's Mission, 90 miles west of Salisbury, bringing the black and white civilian death toll to almost 600 so far this year. The guerrillas have also suffered losses-not all of them in raids and counterattacks by the Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders...
Many of the finest works went to German museums eager to recover treasures from the German past and take up the Bonn government on its offer to foot half the cost of their purchases. The State Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...early '30s, however, that Von Hirsch assembled his medieval collection. In 1933, as the political climate in Germany grew ugly, Von Hirsch, a Jew, moved across the Swiss border to Basel. He won permission to take his collection with him on condition he turn over to the German government Lucas Cranach's painting, The Judgment of Paris. After the war, it was returned to him still bearing the label, THE PROPERTY OF REICHSMAR-SCHALL GOERING. Von Hirsch gave it to the Kunstmuseum in Basel...
...largest, if not indisputably the greatest, sporting event in the world. Two years ago 104 national teams, with the best talent each home country could assemble and train, be gan to play elimination rounds all over the globe. This month the 14 survivors and the West German team, the defending champions, moved to Argentina to join the host country in an exhausting series of round-robin matches for the World Cup, which is held every four years to decide who rules soccer. The play was only fit fully brilliant, and it produced no wonder team, no commanding individual star...
...hour. If you asked her the cost, she began to mull it over and scratch under her wig with a hairpin. If the customer bought on credit and Zeldele marked down the amount, she couldn't make out later what she had written. When the war came and German marks ... came into use, she grew completely bewildered. Eli abused her in front of the customers and called her "Cow." She became sick during the war and they didn't manage to get her to a hospital. She lay down in bed and went off to sleep like...