Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...missile's propellant was painstakingly perfected as the chemistry of high-energy fuels was tested at half a dozen laboratories. At one point, Raborn's talent scouts had to track down an expatriate German, descendant of a long line of armor makers, who could work the heat-resistant beryllium parts for the missile's control vanes. They found him in Ohio, in a backyard auto garage...
...Harold Macmillan began a series of pep talks designed to spur sales abroad. "We have always been merchant adventurers," he told a London audience of 400 top businessmen last week. "That is our tradition. I urge you to recruit your fellows into those noble ranks." He noted that "our German friends have coined a word, Exportfreudigkeit, or roughly 'export joy,' " and he invited his blue-chip audience to get out and learn what it means...
...dozen conferees paid tribute to Sir Norman McAlister Gregg, 68, the Sydney ophthalmic surgeon who saw a local epidemic of cataracts in the newborn in 1941. By detective work he found that in all but ten of 78 cases the mothers had had German measles (rubella) in the first four months of pregnancy. Around the world, Gregg's findings were soon confirmed. Thus a common infection, almost invariably mild in children but which may be severe in adults, was convicted as a crippler and killer of the unborn...
...unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president, Anglican Canon Edward Patey, formally refused to sanction joint Communion, more than 1,000 young people commandeered the Reformed Church of Switzerland's St. Francois Cathedral and celebrated Communion together. Said one German student: "This is the most tremendous thing of the entire assembly. This is more important than words." But at assembly's end, the young enthusiasts faced the fact that they could not permanently kick over the denominational traces - a resolution failed to pass that called upon the churches...
Speaking on the Polish-German Frontier, a second Pole, Josef Kokot, indicated that since the end of World War II, the Polish provinces have made more economic and agricultural progress than have the German provinces. He bolstered this statement with facts and figures...