Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the nationwide fretting over the Chancellor's illness, one previously unmentionable subject got talked about, and all but settled. Should Adenauer die in harness or be forced by ill health to resign, he will be succeeded by his Finance Minister, wispy Fritz Schaffer, the penny-pinching Bavarian banker who did most to make the German mark sound. At his age (67), Schaffer would probably be only an interim leader until some younger, stronger man could emerge. For the long pull, the betting now favors Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, 51, or Trade Unionist Karl Arnold, 54, Minister President...
...strong Dunster line was responsible for shutting out the Bellboys. Scotty Monroe, Bob Wheeler and Fritz Kussin all helped with Dunster defensive play...
...array of the styles that have turned contemporary painting into a seething, uncharted sea of rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's grotesque female portraits to the acrid brilliance of German painters like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining), where thin paint trickles down the canvas like spilled...
DUNSTER: The Funsters finished in a tie for first place in the football league last year and with six quarters returning, will be hard to beat. Among the veterans are fullback Art Martin, halfback Steve West, guard Bob Wheeler, end Tom Howes, center Fritz Kussin, and tackle Scotty Monroe...
...retrace his P.W. characters' lives, Novelist Klaas uses the familiar time-machine or flashback technique. Wyoming Schoolteacher Fritz Heine is a home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering...