Local lore has it that the train was taking the treasure -- most of it gold jewelry and fixtures seized from Eastern European Jews and melted into ingots -- to German territory farther west to prevent its falling into the hands of the Soviet troops who would overrun the area within weeks.
Double-hatting . This is a relatively new piece of Eurospeak used to describe a person or institution which performs two roles. The EUâs recently created army units will, for example, serve both NATO and the Union under a double command structure.
doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player. line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem. closed couplet - a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit.