Word: butted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Credo. At first sight, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer does not look like the man for this staggering task. A smalltown lawyer, he became an able mayor of Cologne and an effective figure in the pre-Hitler Catholic Center Party, but he has no experience in national administration. He...
Crisis of Confidence. From the hard, gritty North Sea ports to the lush Bavarian mountains, from Germany's iron heart in the Ruhr to the placid university towns which cherish their professors and their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat...
Partly Whipped Cream. Most West Germans live only about half as well as they did in 1936; most refugees live half as well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine...
In little Bonn, where Beethoven was born, the new German federal government which has barely begun to function is still trying to find room for its ministries in schools, storehouses, private homes; the sleepy town, with its heavy Victorian houses and yellow streetcars, seems withdrawn and dreamy, as if it...
Germans, who have never shown any talent for democracy, are today corroded by 16 years' dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all...