Word: ernstli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which was a victory for the Socialists. But the rightists in the People's Party also won, for Figl was out as Chancellor, and in his place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to appease Hitler, and took...
...Philadelphia last week, Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom declaimed the bitter story of Medea to the subdued accompaniment of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was the world premiere of a 20-minute musical monologue by Atonalist Ernst Krenek, based on Poet Robinson Jeffers' version of the old Greek masterpiece-and one more sample of the broad and busy range of roles that falls to the Metropolitan's Soprano Thebom (pronounced Thee-bom) these days...
Since West Germany has no army, there was no semblance of a military funeral. The handful of old Wehrmacht officers who appeared wore top hats instead of their high-peaked military caps. Instead of a gun-carriage, a common horse-drawn hearse carried the coffin. Said Dr. Ernst Strasser, the officiating clergyman: "We are burying the last of the great Prussians...
...Kill. Ex-Harvard President Conant could not have picked a livelier classroom for his introduction to cold-war diplomacy, nor a fitter place for his first recitation. Day & night, the German Communists were drawing tighter 'their noose around West Berlin and piling up fresh woes for doughty Mayor Ernst Reuter's West Berlin government. Last week they finished building concrete molehills across the streets leading from the East to the Western sectors. The people's police got orders to shoot to kill at border crossers, and diligently complied. Three cars carrying refugees from the East made...
Stop the Ship. Water Police Sergeant Ernst Mangold, a former U-boat skipper, was first into action. His nippy little launch slid alongside the Raman. "Halt," ordered Mangold, but the Raman plowed on. The cops fired a volley of Very flares and turned their searchlight on the tanker's bridge. Still no response from the Raman. Mangold and his men swarmed up the Raman's sides, only to be deluged by an avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge...