Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worker. Rumors about Wilson's private life and his relation to his private secretary, Marcia Williams (scandalously elevated to the peerage as Lady Faulkender a few years ago) could get nastier. Or there may be things no one has ever mentioned in the press. The surprise resignation of Willy Brandt two years ago, and the recent revelations about President Kennedy's extra-martial affairs, should have taught us never to be surprised about what politicians do in their spare time...
...describe a relaxation in tension between East and West. Henry Kissinger deliberately avoided using the word for several years because he felt it smacked of sentimentality (the literal French meaning of detente is relaxation or easing) and was also associated with West German Prime Minister Willy Brandt's opening-to-the-East Ostpolitik, to which Kissinger was cool...
...hasn't got the symmetry of Marilyn Monroe or even a Campbell's soup can, but no matter. Willy Brandt, 62, former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned...
After that rousing curtain raiser, Schmidt had the convention in his lap. In a conciliatory speech full of profuse praise for Brandt, the Chancellor reassured the 436 delegates that his government was doing everything possible to advance the party's aims, within the limitations of the coalition. The congress voted down a laundry list of Jusos resolutions calling for government control of industrial investments, nationalization of key industries and banks, a $1,953 limitation on monthly personal incomes and a hefty "luxury" tax on a wide variety of consumer goods...
...Brandt and Schmidt were re-elected to their party posts, with 407 votes each. This was nothing short of a triumph for Schmidt, who in 1973 had received only 286 votes for vice-chairman. The Chancellor can now go into the election campaign with firm assurance that his party is behind...