Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stiff and stony-faced, der Alte wasted no time on Wehmut, the sweet melancholy that Germans usually lavish on such occasions. Instead, he launched into a withering attack on President Kennedy's proposal to sell wheat to Russia, calling it a fickle expedient that was inconsistent with Washington's demand last winter that West German in dustrialists cancel a deal to sell pipeline to Moscow. Demanding that the entire subject of East-West trade be reviewed by the NATO Council, Adenauer insisted that the wheat would ultimately help the Russians fight the West, and he echoed a crack...
...person, der Alte restored to Germany the national dignity and political continuity it had lacked since World War I. As his seven children and then 23 grandchildren grew up around him, the years added a few more lines to der Alte's face, whose almost Oriental cast is the result of surgery after a near-fatal automobile accident in 1917. But his ramrod back and unflagging vitality became legendary. He often attributed his staying power to the energies he stored up "during my strongest years," when the Nazis sacked him as mayor of Cologne and he did little...
...century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
Hugo Stinnes-usually referred to as der Junior in German headlines-is the son of the famous Ruhr industrial baron who died in 1924, leaving his empire to be run by his wife and two sons. Hugo worked with his mother and brother Otto to rebuild the Stinnes holdings after World War II, but did not get along with his kinfolk. He set out to build an industrial complex of his own, calling one of his two holding firms "Hugo Stinnes Personally Inc." to show his independence to the world. But Hugo depended too much on the memory...
Grubbing for Gold. The Russians were hesitant to submit an official or der, wanted advance assurance from Washington that it would be approved. President Kennedy was reluctant to commit himself until he got assurance from congressional conservatives that they would not clobber him at some future date for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Compounding confusion, Premier Khrushchev made it sound as if he no longer wanted the wheat by declaring: "If we use bread economically, the resources we now have will be sufficient for the normal supply of the population." Taking Khrushchev's words to mean that...