Word: ard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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West Germany's ARD television said many of the hundreds arrested during the weekend protests already had been sentenced to jail terms of up to six months...
There was something distinctly odd about Chancellor Helmut Kohl's New Year's Eve speech on the publicly owned ARD television network. For a start, Kohl said he was looking forward to tax reforms, when in fact they had been in effect for a year. And why, at the end of his ten-minute address, did Kohl wish his countrymen a "peaceful and happy...
...until the weekend did a Soviet official come forth with the beginnings of a straightforward account. Boris Yletsin, a candidate-member of the Politburo, said reservoirs near the plant were contaminated and the area remained too radioactive for residents to return. In remarks to the West German television network ARD, Yletsin said of the accident, "The cause lies apparently in the subjective realm, in human error. We are undertaking measures to make sure that this doesn't happen again...
...Harold Peary, 76, radio actor who starred from 1937 to 1950 as "The Great Gildersleeve," the pompous windbag with a heart of gold well hidden behind a wall of bluster, first on Fibber McGee and Molly and then on his own show, and made "You're a ha-a-ard man, McGee" and his trademark oily giggle national crazes; of a heart attack; in Torrance, Calif. Peary (born Harrold Jose Pereira de Faria) made several movies and numerous TV appearances as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve and in other parts; the radio role, which he abandoned, was continued until 1958 by another...
...pick girls just on the way they look.' I'm in show business, folks. I don't give a damn about the rules. This is a show. I'm putting on a running event. You look good, you can't be an Olympic ard bearer." As it happened, they not looked good, they done good...