Word: br
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chill, some of the throng dozed on field cots or in collapsible chairs. Bookmakers' odds on the outcome fluctuated. Early betting predicted a decision of guilty, but by the time the judges filed into the courtroom last week, the odds had inched to even money that Defendant Vera Brühne would be acquitted in West Germany's most spectacular murder case since glamorous Rosemarie Nitribitt, the rich man's call girl, was strangled with one of her own stockings...
...refused to kill him. One reported his strange interview to the police but was unable to identify Resnick, and the matter was forgotten in the crackpot file. At last, late in February, Sam Resnick found his death warrant in an ad that read: "SERVICE Station Attendant or anything else. BR...
From time to time, they open their eyes a slit, reach for a hot glass of Glühwein (in Austria or Switzerland), vin chaud (in France) or vino brûlé (in Italy...
...cold, cloudy morning in Berlin. Just before 8 o'clock, five blue-grey German-made sedans pulled up at the western end of Glienicker Brücke. the steel-trussed bridge that spans the sleepy Havel River between the U.S. zone and Communist territory. A group of 20 American military men and civilians got out and waited. Five minutes later, other cars approached the bridge from the Communist side. Their occupants emerged and stood talking. Finally, two men detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks...
Soprano Birgit Nilsson, scheduled to sing the role of Brünnhilde, had to bow out the evening before the performance. General Manager Rudolf Bing gave the role to Soprano Margaret Harshaw, who was to have sung Sieglinde; into the Sieglinde role went Soprano Gladys Kuchta. One of the Valkyries, Mezzo Gladys Kriese, was ill with tracheitis: her part went to Mezzo Ethel Greene, regularly a member of the chorus...