Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists' East German wall was virtually complete. Behind it, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht could whip his sullen millions into line without fear of an other mass exodus. But barricading Berlin was just the first surprise Old Spitzbart (pointed beard) had in mind for the West. Last week, pointedly, arrogantly, he began to reach for more, and as a result, on the tense and anxious Berlin frontier more and more armed men faced each other with weapons at the ready...
...Bobbing Beard. The danger was that the tense crowds on both sides of the barriers might merge and touch off the East German revolt that everyone feared. Already Moscow's famed Marshal Ivan Konev had moved two divisions of Russian troops into Berlin's outskirts, ready for the kind of action that the Soviets had employed to put down the abortive 1953 East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos...
Headquarters of Communism's first postwar political commissariat in Berlin was on the second floor of a dismal concrete building on a thoroughfare named, of all things, Wallstrasse-Wall Street. From these few dingy rooms, the faithful Ulbricht, now sporting a wispy mustache and a pointed little Lenin beard, sent his agents fanning out to grab control-first of the Berlin city administration, then of every town and city in the Soviet zone...
Virtually all the comfortable old neighborhood Bierstuben have been forced out of business. Today the German worker must take his evening glass of beer at the big, bleak, state-run HO halls, where portraits of Lenin and old Spitzbart (pointed beard, i.e., Ulbricht) look down mockingly from the walls...
...Grudge. It was the same old Jomo. The spade beard was mottled with grey, but the clothes that he wears like a uniform-brown leather jacket, baggy corduroy trousers, red tie-were the same as the clothes he wore at the time of his arrest by the British in 1952. Now as then, he denies complicity in the Mau Mau terror which cost the lives of more than 13,000. Says Kenyatta: "I have never been a violent man. My whole life has been antiviolence." As for the eight years of detention, partly spent at remote Lodwar, where...