Word: burghers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escape the tumult, many government officials and businessmen did not bother to come to work. West German President Gustav Heinemann loaded several bundles of documents in his car and drove off to his country house. When one Bonn burgher called information to get the emergency number of the municipal hospital, the answer was a gale of shrieking laughter...
...image of only brief encounters with foreign countries. York proved quite knowledgeable when it came to analyzing the film scene in a country like Holland. He is very pleased with the turn things are taking in the traditionally dull Dutch film world. Of course it's still very Burgher there, but I think it's the youth that counts. They're the once who go to the movies and the ones who make them. We made 'Confessions of a Loving Couple' on a shoe-string budget. It was most extraordinary experience, very experimental and all improvisations. Only one take...
...part of a $45,000 campaign to attract new industry to the Fond du Lac area, about 65 miles north of Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...
Both the return of the Popes to Rome and the rise of a burgher class began to turn the courteous arrangement sour. By the mid-15th century, bourgeois resentment had determined that the Pope's Jews could not expand beyond their one-street ghetto. The only place to go was up so they built some of Western Europe's earliest residential skyscrapers, houses ten to eleven stories high. To enforce humility, the town limited the number of pearls a Jewish woman might wear for her wedding. The serving of sugar-coated almonds, a local delicacy cherished...
...months and clearly profited from a recent lowering of the voting age from 20 to 19. In addition, Willy Brandt's election as the Social Democratic Chancellor of neighboring West Germany helped Kreisky's party to overcome residual Austrian fears of the red Bürgerschreck ("Burgher's Terror") stemming from the 1930s, when Socialists and conservatives battled on the streets of Vienna...