Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...der Liebestraum von Liszt...
...ship, wrote Jarrell, lay 15 miles off Fire Island, awash in millionaire yachtsmen, bubbly flappers, lush chorines, and "revels de luxe." His reporting was meticulous: the cutlery and napery, he wrote, bore the name of "the Friedrich der Grosse, a former North German Lloyd liner." One redhead stood on the dance floor shouting: "This is an epic lark...
...Make 20 Copies. Senefelder started out to be a playwright; his first play was called Der Madchenkenner (The Man Who Knew Girls), and he played the lead with lusty success. Other plays followed, and they presented the author with a problem. Each script needed at least 20 copies-too few to warrant the expense of a printer, too many to copy by hand...
Seeing in his 86th birthday with a flute of champagne, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer received a baroque stone bench from the man perennially most likely to succeed him. Toasted Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, eliciting a faint smile and a wag of der Alte's steady old finger: "In order to forestall any bad jokes, I should say that this gift is not for use in retirement but for your relaxation...
Flat Refusal. Gullion, with U.N. Un der Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing...