Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade deficit will diminish this year, but the dollar will remain weak against the mighty German mark and Swiss franc...
...watch it. I'm a voyeur. Hitchcock, DePalma, Scorcese's Taxi Driver. They keep me out of trouble. It's a crazy world, y'know Chaim? A crazy world. What else is this week? The Third Man. A thrilling Carol Reed movie, with those magnificent camera angles out of German expressionism and Orson Welles's Harry Lime, a slippery, outrageous performance by one of our greatest filmmakers. Touch of Evil is also in town. Best first and last scene in film history. Am I boring...
...your article on the offer by West Germany's Tengelmann Group to buy A&P stock [Jan. 29], you observed that "the German company can certainly teach A&P much." Why? Whatever happened to "Grandma...
...Fortunata, 25. She had been abandoned by her husband. "No problem," said Giuseppe. "Move in with us." Then came Margherita, 20 and pregnant. She was followed by Lucia, 42, seduced and deserted by her lover. Another local woman, a second Margherita, joined the clan. Next was Angelika, 22, a German waitress with two illegitimate children. When Fortunata's mother Carmela showed up, she too was invited to stay. No problem...
...intimidated by Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, who had been making grim references to a nuclear holocaust if the West did not get out of Berlin, where it had had a legal right to be since 1945. Beneath the bluster, however, Khrushchev was behaving cautiously. At first, he resisted East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's request to build the Wall. When the barrier was erected, Western leaders reacted with relief. They had been expecting much worse...