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Word: teutonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story begins, she is tolerating a routine of more-or-less intermittent rape; soon she is submitting a bit more cheerfully to one of her husband's students, Sam; by the end of the book she has left both of them in favor of a muscular blond Teuton who offers her what is evidently meant to be fulfillment...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Well, he thought, well, well, well' | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

...Rickenbacker sailed to England to buy engines for a racing team. He was already known to sportswriters as "the Happy Heinie" and "the Wild Teuton," so suspicious British officials took no chances with him. They detained him on arrival, tore his shoes apart looking for messages and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of finding secret writing. He was, of course, both completely clean and completely loyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890-1973 | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...Teuton waving his hairy green hat appreciatively at an Alp might be any German tourist, but - you realize with a start - it is Martin Bormann. There are scraps of conversation, no more. Hitler scans a speech manuscript through a large magnifying glass on the breezy terrace with Speer looking over his shoulder. He looks up. "Very interesting," the Führer remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Hitler Revival: Myth v.Truth | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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