Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Later, I found that it rambled the entire length of the frontier. The purpose of the strip is to enable authorities to trace the footsteps of fleeing East Germans to determine their route, and to discipline any patrols that might let them escape. West Germans call the cleared area der Todesstreifen-the death strip...
Despite considerable concessions to his new government partners, the Free Democrats, Adenauer plainly remains his own boss. Der Alte blithely added to his Cabinet without consulting his coalition colleagues, further humiliated Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard (whom he considers too spineless to rule Germany) by withdrawing Erhard's unofficial title of Vice Chancellor, and coolly refused to give the Bundestag the customary summation of the new government's policies...
...record for Goya was set with the sale of his hapless Duke of Wellington, which thereupon went to London's National Gallery and was almost immediately stolen. The Montreal collector, L. V. Randall, sold his master drawings for $186,400. Among them was a saint by Hugo van der Goes that brought an astonishing $84,000, making it the most expensive drawing of all time. Last year Sotheby's sales spiraled to a dizzy $28,834,100 (as compared with Parke-Bernet...
...Konrad Adenauer's re-election to a fourth term as West Germany's Chancellor, no fewer than 26 of 241 Christian Democrats present showed their distaste for their party leader by dropping blank white cards into the plastic ballot box. When all the ballots were counted, der Alte had squeaked through with only eight more votes than the required majority of 250. Many delegates ostentatiously sat on their hands, and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who had been cruelly punished by Adenauer for his own feeble bid for the chancellorship, stalked out puffing on a dead cigar...
...line of poetry in a conversation preserved in Chapter 26, but he confesses he thinks it's "schmalxig." Rehder and Twaddell have in fact found only one man who is culturally aware (he is, I think, one of the Schmidts). Herr Schmidt has written a book Ueber den Untergang der Weltl, he announces with pride. But Schmidt is resolutely cold-shouldered by average-man Steinhauer, who remarks (witheringly) "So? Das ist ja sehr interessant...