Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Free Democrats, who are still smarting from his campaign attacks. In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom. His successor, sharp-tongued Gerhard Schröder (see following story), was angrily opposed by West Berlin's Christian Democrats, since he is said to believe that West Berlin is "indefensible." The Free Democrats also captured five other government ministries: Finance, Justice, Treasury, Development and Refugees' Affairs...
...picked as West Germany's new Foreign Minister is a tall, smoothly handsome Saarlander who owes his job and much of his political style to Konrad Adenauer. But Gerhard Schröder, 51, is far more insular than the Chancellor, has at best an opportunist's interest in European unity. Though his views may change in office, Schröder is loosely allied to West Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only...
...Germany's postwar politics, Schröder has shared Adenauer's impatience with parliamentary institutions, argues that the nation needs "a strong government, strongly led." Schröder, who was named deputy floor leader for Adenauer's Christian Democrats in 1952 and has been Interior Minister since 1953, has not hesitated to warn opponents that a vote against the Chancellor is a vote for Communism. Among politicians, Schröder's boyish subservience to Adenauer has earned him the title "Bonn's oldest young man." He is nonetheless a seasoned political infighter whose cunning...
...minor railroad official, Schröder was perennial head of his class and still, say his foes, has the star pupil's condescending manner. From Königsberg University, Law Student Schröder went to the University of Edinburgh, finished his studies with a doctorate from Cologne. He says he quit the Nazi Party in 1941, when he married a part-Jewish woman. After the war, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf...
Borrowing Words. Flattering their U.S. competitors by imitation, German agencies have adopted the U.S. pattern of servicing each major account with task forces of account executives, market researchers and other specialists. They have also borrowed U.S. advertising lingo. Today's German agencies are staffed by specialists such as der Layouter, der Texter and der Media-Mann. They work up die Marketing Proposition and test it on einem Consumer Panel. If it goes over, they prepare eine Direct Mail Kampagne or perhaps TV spots, always hammering home ein guter Slogan. They then make die Presentation to der Client. And along...