Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three thousand workers toiled three years to build Adolf Hitler's sumptuous Bavarian "Eagle's Nest" atop a mountain at Berchtesgaden. Allied bombers in a few seconds blasted a group of chalets below it (including one of Hitler's and several for smaller Nazis), but left unharmed Hitler's high-perched eyrie, with its wide view of the white-tipped Austrian Alps. Since then verboten territory to Germans, the Berchtesgaden villas have been a red-hot G.I. tourist attraction. Souvenir hawkers have stripped them, selling tiles from Hitler's bathroom to G.I.s at 5 marks...
Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank. Blank's top experts, Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel, have anti-Nazi records, though they also had brilliant military careers...
...Angeles judge agreed that the grave of Showman Earl Carroll, in Forest Lawn cemetery, could be decorated with a new monument. He authorized the estate to pay $10,000 for a near-life-sized bronze statue of a winged nude, completed by Sculptor Adolf Alexander Weinman in 1915 and called Wings of Hope...
From the Japanese Foreign Office to Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf went an airmailed gift: photographs of a sturdy pine tree which Gustaf planted in a Kyoto temple garden 25 years ago when he was Crown Prince...
...55th annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia was interrupted by hooting laughter as members listened to Juliusz Katz-Suchy, Permanent Polish Delegate to the U.N., praise Russia and brand "imperialist America" an "aggressor" in Korea. The next scheduled speaker, Adolf A. Berle Jr., onetime Assistant Secretary of State, ignored his prepared speech, began: "When my esteemed friend is making one of his periodic visits home to take back a report to the Russian general who commands the Polish Army ..." Katz-Suchy dashed back to the platform, grabbed the microphone for a few more...