Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BERLIN, Eastern Sector, June 7--"The issues of Berlin and Germany can only be solved at the summit," chief information officer of the East German Communist government Stefan Heymann said today...
Heymann declared, however, that he believed the East Germans had already achieved their objective at the Geneva conference. He reiterated that the East German government would not accept any proposal which involved moving the East German capital out of East Berlin...
...division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima," the powder could be transported as flour or dough, even baked and carried around in cake and cookie form. To prove that...
Nothing did stop them-in places. In the battle's first hours, between 0015 and 0900, the Allies won three quick successes. On the left flank the British 6th Airborne Division achieved complete tactical surprise, wiped out German positions east of the Orne River. On the right flank the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, although badly scattered in the airdrop, outfought three German divisions, suffering 2,500 casualties. Shielded by this U.S. airborne success, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division swept ashore soon after the first light on Utah Beach, swamped the defenses at a cost of only...
...worse off in relation to those below." Workers own TV sets, cars and motor scooters, often go abroad for their holidays. Free education enables their children to aspire to be physicians, naval officers, scientists. "Working class" has become a pejorative phrase. In the new low-cost housing development at East Grinstead, authorities recently refused to distribute a police leaflet giving advice on protecting homes from burglars until the phrase "working-class families" was eliminated. Laborers no longer doff their hats to squires or mumble that the good things of life "are not for the likes o' me," and more...