Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the five-day conference ended, the students contributed the names of at least 100 others who they thought would be interested in the meetings. "It started us thinking," said Mining Engineer Karl Nagler, "and that's what we needed." Said grey-haired former Marxist Ernst Wolff, as he left: "Christianity doesn't offer a pat, easily learned formula the way Communism does. It adds another dimension to your life...
...Western watchtower down the centuries. Eight hundred years ago it rose near the site of a Roman fort on the barbarian frontier. Three hundred years ago it looked out on the Turkish horde sweeping in from the East. During the siege of 1683, Vienna's resolute commander Count Ernst Riidiger Starhemberg climbed to the highest perch in the Gothic steeple, fired rockets of distress, at last spied the armies of Poland's Jan Sobieski and other allies marching to the city's relief. The Turks were beaten back, and the bells of St. Stephen's intoned...