Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colored Historian Richard van der Ross says, only slightly in jest, that the Colored race "was born nine months after the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck," the Dutchman who founded Cape Colony in 1652. Since few white women ventured to join their menfolk, the Dutch encouraged racial mingling as a means of persuading the colonists to stay permanently in South Africa...
...increasingly widespread apprehension that France's adamantly self-centered policies may have dealt the deathblow to the European Community that was envisaged by its founders. In Brussels last week, at an angry meeting of Common Market foreign ministers, West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder declared flatly that his government is tired of making economic concessions to suit the French, while Germany's dominant interests are imperiled by De Gaulle's foreign policy. West Germany, which relies heavily on foreign trade, is deeply concerned by the Common Market's isolation from the rest...
...their disputes by peaceful means. On the basis of this kind of community of free nations, we seek by every means at our disposal compatible with our own security and that of other free nations to bring the arms race under control and to move the nations now un der Communist control toward acceptance of the principles of national independence, human freedom, international legal order, and peace...
...Der Alte was licked, and to reporters outside, who complained about being kept away from the meeting room, he snapped: "How do you think I felt inside that room? I would rather have been outside...
...Ludwig Erhard, who sat chewing on a cigar throughout the proceedings, success was too sweet for any thought of revenge against his old foe. He pledged "to forgive and forget" Adenauer's insults. All eyes then swung to der Alte, who swallowed his bitterness, promised to abide by the majority decision. "I am willing," he told Erhard, "to pass along to you all I know ... in the interests of the German people." Then he abruptly stood up, slowly and impassively walked through the crowd to his waiting car, and with a weary wave of farewell, drove home...