Word: helm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Willy Brandt's traditionally antimilitary Social Democratic Party took the helm in Bonn last fall, the unhappy men of the Bundeswehr were certain that bad would go to worse. They were concerned when Brandt chose as his Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, then the party's Bundestag floor leader, who did not even want the job because it was regarded as a political graveyard. Concern turned to alarm when Schmidt created a McNamara-like think tank headed by Dr. Theo Sommer, 39, an intellectual and deputy editor of the highly regarded liberal weekly Die Zeit; to some military...
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan must have glowed with pride over his daughter Princess Nori as she was photographed at Togu Palace in Tokyo on her first birthday. With regal bearing, earnest mien and a firm grip on her free-form hobbyhorse, Nori looked ready to take the helm of the ship of state...
...NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center outside Houston, hundreds of engineers and technicians assembled to guide the crippled spacecraft through its four-day ordeal. Perhaps the coolest and most professional of them were the two young flight director-Glynn Lunney, 33, and Gene Kranz, 36-who were at the helm in Mission Control during the first hours of crisis...
...largest question raised by the moon-landing, Mailer said, "was whether God or the Devil was at the helm. When it happened, I felt that the world had gone forever out of the control of the people I know...
...cite Kunstler and Weinglass, to say nothing of their clients. But the size of the lawyers' sentences left many legal experts aghast-and concerned about the possible effect on some lawyers who may now be less willing to represent controversial clients vigorously. Said San Francisco Attorney Naomi Litvin Helm: "The judge had to do something. But four years for acting up in a courtroom is a hell of a long time when you consider what some people get for an actual crime of violence...