Word: bilding
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Suddenly the signature of Old Astronaut John Glenn, 44, was showing up everywhere in Hamburg, Germany-on eggs, on a banana, on two Fräuleins' foreheads. In town with his wife Annie on a West German good-will tour, Glenn discovered that the daily Bild-Zeitung was juicing up the visit with a contest. WHO WILL GET THE MOST UNUSUAL GLENN AUTOGRAPH? the newspaper bannered, and all day John signed...
...Glenns flew wearily off to London, the contest editors announced that the winner was a house painter who got Glenn to sign a prepaid telegram and sent it on to the Bild-Zeitung. His prize: three glorious, fun-filled days visiting a German rocket institute...
...approach that afternoon, as her closed Mercedes whisked the Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve that England expects of its Queen. The mass-circulation Bild Zeitung ran three photos of Elizabeth's glum face and begged, "Please smile more, Your Majesty...
...over West Germany on New Year's Eve, candles were lit and placed in windows to burn as symbols of the nation's hopes for reunification. Nonetheless, for Bonn the German New Year began in a mood of gloom. Cried the Bild-Zeitung in banner-headline indignation: SHOWDOWN WITH THE U.S. NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOSCOW OVER REUNIFICATION...
Reading a recent line of poetry, "Why don't we gather in front of life the way we gather in front of a burning house?" Lars Beckstrom, poet and editor of Och und Bild, suggested that the meaninglessness of today's language may result from the evident disaffection with life...