Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs to sell hard liquor over the bar. Though it admonished commanders to "encourage abstinence, enforce moderation and punish overindulgence," and forbade bar drinks for soldiers under 21, last week's directive promptly brought a protest from Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. "More than 20,000 ex-uniformed alcoholics have passed through veterans' hospitals in the last three years," said Mrs. Colvin sternly. "The new order will double this number...
...bundled back across the border. To help him win, the U.S. Secretary of State made a blunt appeal for an Adenauer victory (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and unwittingly gave Konrad Adenauer's most threatening opponents, the Social Democrats, an issue they sorely wanted. It embarrassed Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition somewhat, but it came providentially late in the campaign...
...Munich, a team of
boxers went to their polls in boxing trunks on the
...Christian Democrats had expected at best to run up a narrow majority over the Social Democrats and the crazy quilt of splinter parties competing for the 484 seats in the Bundestag. Instead, they won a smashing victory, and the right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...
...tractor, three horses, 14 cows, 15 calves, five sheep, ten geese, 13 ducks, and employs two helpers." In East Berlin they pilloried Pastor Hermann Erhardt of the Pankow borough. "Has the pastor collected parcels because he is needy?" the signs asked. "He said he did it out of Christian charity. What a sham...