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Anschluss (AN-shloos) noun

   A political union, especially the one unifying Nazi Germany and Austria
   in 1938.

[German, annexation, from anschliessen, to enclose, annex : an, on (from
Middle High German ane, from Old High German ana.) + schliessen, to close,
from Middle High German sliezen, from Old High German sliozan.]

   "I am hopeful that we can get beyond the divisiveness of the last year
   without a return to the factionalism that made Reform such an easy target
   for Buchanan's Anschluss."
   Lenora Fulani, Will Reform Party Survive Splits?, Seattle Post -
   Intelligencer, Aug 8, 2000.

This week's theme: words from the German language.

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they
may start a winning game. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist,
novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

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