Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard fact remained that if West Germany was to be a nation, as the Western powers and its own people have decided, it would sooner or later have to be armed, and want to be armed. It would be up to the Western powers and to Germany's own democrats to keep a German army within reasonable bounds and under civilian control; if they could not accomplish that, they would not be able to accomplish very much else in Germany...
...shrewd, 65-year-old Prime Minister Fraser soft-pedaled the Socialist line, tried to convince the guinea pigs that if they elected the free-enterprisers they would face insecurity, wage cuts, a depression. The opposition National Party promised to keep social security and present wage levels. But it hammered hard at high taxes, controls, and the creeping inefficiency of government...
Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more than 16,000 feet above sea level," says Dr. Monge, "his idea of relaxation is a soccer match in which he sometimes plays barefooted...
Less than a month after his re-election to one of the country's toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he was really relaxing: when a small fire in his kitchenette brought 22 firemen and a police detail swarming to his hospital suite, Hizzoner slept through...
...Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...