Word: heinrich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heinrich Lübke, 73, the President of West Germany, has always cut a less than imposing figure in the country's highest, though largely ceremonial post as head of state. A conservative Catholic politician who served in postwar cabinets as Agriculture Minister, he was thrust into the presidency as a last-minute compromise candidate in 1959. Even many of his own Christian Democrats tried to keep him from running for a second five-year term in 1964. Benign but somewhat bungling, he won a reputation as West Germany's unexcelled master of the malapropism, has been long...
BRECHT: It would be nice if she effloresced about the hips a bit, Heinrich, don't you think...
BRECHT: But none the less Heinrich, lieber Heinrich it is an honor when they do your work, wherever, whenever. As for however, why that McBain youth meant no harm in adapting your Master Builder. He only meant, no doubt, to give the idiom a more modern ring, and to snip away that overgrowth of symbols. There are such a lot of symbols in the play, Heinrich...
...remembers in her Twenty Letters to a Friend that Stalin knew only that Yakov had been shot, but had no official explanation of where or how. In 1945, U.S. and British intelligence teams found in Berlin the German dossier on Yakov, which consists of a letter by SS Commander Heinrich Himmler confirming Yakov's death, an autopsy report, depositions from guards and fellow prisoners, and pictures of the young man stretched out on the camp fence...
...million, Klockner could hardly match the Chicago company's bid. But neither Klock ner nor the 500 members of the Fahr family and their 4,000 employees wanted an American owner to take over the 98-year-old company. They remembered only too well what happened to Heinrich Lanz AG, which in 1956, at age 97, was bought out by the U.S.'s Deere & Co. Deere replaced the German management, struck the Lanz name from products, disregarded the labor union - and has almost consistently lost money on Lanz...