Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week was that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer seemed to be in a terrible mood. Washington kept shouting from the housetops that a Berlin crisis was imminent; Adenauer did not agree, and did not see what Washington wanted him to do about it. At noon a cable signed Schröder was placed on his desk, and within minutes the temper in Adenauer's office improved. The German Foreign Minister, visiting Washington, reported his considered judgment that the American uproar about Berlin had been started largely for domestic political reasons. No one he had talked to, reported Schroder...
...solve the German question." During the noisy sessions, Adenauer rose to proclaim hotly his full solidarity with U.S. Berlin policy. But opposition delegates could not forgive a passage in Adenauer's policy speech which sneered at "those who constantly expect initiatives . . . for the sake of remaining busy." Added der Alte: "As long as the Soviet Union insists on the division of Germany . . . most of the initiatives which we are urged to take will be devoid of sense...
Interrupting a Lake Como holiday. Konrad Adenauer hurried home last week for the funeral of one of his oldest friends. Cologne Banker Robert Pferdmenges, 82. To another man, the occasion might have served as a reminder of his own advancing years, but not to der Alte. At 86, after 13 years as Chancellor, Adenauer still relishes the power that came to him so late in life-and, though he has agreed in writing to step down in the fall of 1963, he is now looking for a way to cling to that power a little longer...
Undaunted, Der Dicke went on building tunnels and even took "options" on prospective new sites. His most recent tunnel was designed to come out in an East Berlin lumberyard. Der Dicke and his agents lined up nearly 100 customers in East Berlin, representing a total take of more than $20,000. Der Dicke began dickering with representatives of U.S. and British TV networks, proposing to sell them the rights to an on-the-spot filming of an escape. But the tunnel exit missed the lumberyard by several feet and was instantly spotted by the Vopos...
...House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M.'s aggressive, 600-man team that since 1945 has designed $2.5 billion worth of buildings from the U.S. Air Force Academy to Chicago's Inland Steel headquarters...