Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to Walter Reed Army Hospital last week, Secretary Dulles left behind him, as a solid achievement of his personal diplomacy, a united Western position on Berlin. Fundamentals of the position, as Dulles set them down after his return from talks with government chiefs in London, Paris and Bonn...
...organization called Hermes, which offers exporters a guarantee against default by their customers. Thanks to Hermes (which has so far committed $600 million to underwriting Mideastern deals alone), West German businessmen can often offer credit to customers whom other Western businessmen must pass up as bad risks. Sometimes the Bonn government steps in directly to help. West Germany is about to give the Greek government $150 million in loans and credits, in a deal which commits Greece to spend two-thirds of it on German capital goods...
...contrast, the Western notion of good faith was symbolized at West Germany's Cologne-Bonn airport when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, en route from successful visits to London and Paris, was personally welcomed by West Germany's rocklike Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Said Dulles warmly: "It is not necessary to re-examine the fundamentals. They are fixed, solid and unshaken." The crucial point: whatever the "tactical flexibility" deployed for the inevitable Big Four talks on Germany this spring, the West is still fixed, solid and unshaken on the basic proposition that to Communism there is no truth...
...Bonn Dulles found Konrad Adenauer willing to appear flexible but skeptical of making any substantial concessions to Russia. In particular, Adenauer is wary of anything that smacks of "confederation,'1 the Russian scheme to link East and West Germany by loose federal institutions. Asks Adenauer scornfully: "Can fire and water confederate...
More than 20 years ago, Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch discovered that bees communicate by dancing on the honeycomb. Last week his pupil, Dr. Wolfgang Steche, 38, of Bonn's Institute for Bee Science, explained that he had learned to speak a little of the bees' language...