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‖ Drang|dræŋ|
[G.]
Pressure; urge, strong desire; esp. in Drang nach Osten (lit. pressure to the east), a former German imperialistic policy of eastern expansion; also transf.
1906W. James Let. 28 June in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. 471 The wide difference between your whole Drang in philosophizing and mine would give me a despairing feeling. 1909V. Yovanovitch Near-Eastern Problem iii. 21 (heading) The ‘Drang nach Osten’ or the Pan-German Peril. Ibid. 22 The economic interests of the hour are paramount, and the real peril against which the Europe of the twentieth century must fight is the Drang nach Osten—in other words, the tendency of the Germans towards universal economic supremacy. 1914H. H. Munro Beasts & Super-Beasts 153 It was, perhaps, a desire to out⁓distance all possible competition that influenced the management of the Daily Intelligencer..to transfer its offices..to Eastern Turkestan... All took part in what was popularly alluded to as the Drang nach Osten. 1939H. Nicolson Diary 9 Feb. (1966) 391 Berlin engineered the story about the Drang nach Osten in order to divert our attention from an impending drive towards the west. 1940Economist 12 Oct. 450/1 A German offensive—of which the occupation of Roumania and the establishment of airfields within bombing distance of Istanbul is a first manœuvre—may well develop, following the old lines of the Drang nach Osten. 1941A. Huxley Grey Eminence viii. 171 Crusading, for Wallenstein, was merely an excuse for the Drang nach Osten. 1951M. Lowry Let. 25 Aug. (1967) 252 A philosophy and psychological drang. 1967Economist 18 Mar. 996/2 It is impossible not to be uncomfortably aware of the omens that support your thesis of an economic drang nach osten in Yorkshire. |