Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Lecture. Having put down the rank and file, Adenauer was ready to deal with Erhard himself. Already a bitter joke was circulating: Adenauer should get an honorary degree in medicine for being "able to break the spine of 270 Christian Democratic parliamentarians without spilling one drop of blood." Morning after Erhard's arrival, party go-betweens took him to the Palais Schaumburg to hear soothing words from Adenauer, accompanied by a brisk lecture on the mathematics of political survival. Adenauer conceded that Erhard, with the help of perhaps 30 or 40 Christian Democrats, might be able to collect...
...last week gave Spain another $22.6 million in aid. But it was a loan long in the works and earmarked mostly for Spain's ailing railroads, and it was a mere drop in a leaky bucket...
...designers are not much worried. Most steep waves are low enough, they say, to be passed over easily. High waves are usually long and gradual; they can be surmounted like a series of hills. Hovercraft can be designed with a seaworthy hull. In the worst storms they could drop down into the water and ride out the storm like any other vessel...
Open Hearing (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The first of two live broadcasts of war games at Fort Bragg, N.C., including a massive air drop of heavy equipment and paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division...
...voice delivers a chilling message: "Remember you must die." Police investigate but uncover nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers answer their phones, hear the message, but shut it out when they can, determined to caper out their danse macabre till they drop. At their best, which of course is their worst, they behave like characters somehow kept alive after the last page of a Waugh novel and unearthed 40 years later...