Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first flush of his unprecedented electoral third-term victory, Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer drove out to the Benedictine monastery at Maria Laach near Bonn, where he had taken refuge for almost a year during the worst days of being Nazi-blacklisted before the war. In one respect the Chancellor's hour-and-a-half meditation in the monastery gardens was like all his actions of his week of triumph: he kept a discreet silence about his intentions, as is the victor's prerogative. The opposition Socialists, on the other hand, might be expected to hold a noisy...
...more than the minimum 5% necessary to be represented in the Bundestag. Thus the prospect is that West Germany is well on the way to a reasonably well balanced two-party government, free from the fragmentation that did so much to destroy the Weimar Republic of the '20s. Christian Democrats were particularly heartened by the fact that they had scored sizable gains in traditionally Socialist strongholds in the industrial Ruhr. In a brief morning-after champagne celebration with party workers, 81-year-old Konrad Adenauer bubbled: "We can finally end the divisions of class...
...first King to rule Norway as an independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain...
...Korea winter . . ." Murrow brought back the vivid sight and sound of a marine's shovel rasping futilely at the earth. Other memorable See It Now moments for eye and ear: a Buchenwald tattoo on the arm of an Israeli jet pilot; a "rehabilitated" Mau Mau warrior singing Onward, Christian Soldiers; the ding of a bullet taken out of a G.I.'s spine as it was tossed by the surgeon to a nurse and dropped into a cup in her hand...
...Purely Christian. Founder of this remarkable church was a Congregational pastor from Boston, the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, whose love of "gay, wicked, learned, royal Paris" was mixed with grim Yankee misgivings: "One may live in Paris and feel that he is in a world without souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees...