Word: munich
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...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
...eight prominent intellectuals arrested last year after denouncing Franco at a Munich conference, five have been pardoned and the rest allowed to go into voluntary exile. Franco's uniformed state police, once everywhere, is now less obvious, less arrogant...
...were many angry readers who did not grasp our definition: a man or woman who dominated the news that year and left an indelible mark - for good or ill - on history. Khrushchev was allowed to look triumphant the year of the Sputnik (1957), but Hitler in the year of Munich (1938) already had so much blood on his hands that he was made a small figure playing a hymn of hate on a giant organ - as if the editors wanted to be doubly sure that Hitler could not use TIME'S choice for his own glorification...
...Cuban crisis decisions. The President pleasantly dodged: "I would not attempt to describe, verify, or in any way discuss the position that any member of the National Security Council has taken." Pushed for comment on the responsibility of the Saturday Evening Post article that claimed Stevenson wanted "a Munich," the President scattered more peace on earth: "I would not attempt to characterize writers of this article or any other." Only once did Kennedy show any sign of irritation. When pressed for his feelings about the Stevenson controversy, and about the press accounts that claimed that he and/or his aides were...
...former dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences also characterized as "uncalled for" the charge in a Saturday Evening Post article that U.N. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson advocated a "Munich" solution to the Russian challenge in Cuba...