Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, almost a quarter of a century since the German Reichstag and the Weimar Republic went up in flames together, Germany's second experiment in democracy was in the full flower of a free election. Though incumbent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer still seemed a shoo-in in a generally stodgy campaign (TIME, Sept. 2), the most significant fact about it was that the country seems directly and unmistakably headed for a two-party system. The two parties: Adenauer's Christian Democrats and the Socialists of Erich Ollenhauer...
...religion sprang up from the remnants of the old, and throughout rural Viet Nam last week illiterate, black-clad peasants bolted their doors at sunset, murmured incantations to the lotus flower, and talked in fearful and guarded tones of the Devil King and his Flying Men. The Devil King struck first last month at a small village 100 miles west of Saigon. His men entered a village restaurant, cold-bloodedly executed 17 men, women and children; a Buddhist was beheaded while praying...
After lunch (with two martinis) he naps for an hour, putters around in the flower garden (he tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...
...Santiago, the new cases were described by doctors as increasingly serious. Said one: "We have no explanation as yet. but it seems that the virus is now stronger than the previous week." Abandoning their now ineffective treatment of aspirin or linden-flower potion, health officials fought the virus, identified as "Japan 305," with such antibiotics as streptomycin and achromycin...
...intellectual atmosphere of the Ecole Normale Superiere "seeps in like the scent in a deserted flower shop," Jean J. Seznec, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University, told a Lamont Forum Room audience in the final Thursday Afternoon Lecture...