Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living in a two-story building. ¶ From Berlin's Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, going up on the ruined foundations of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Main feature: a tall, concrete spire (see cut), which Berliners are calling "The Spiked Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed by U.S. government funds. Designed by Cambridge (Mass.) Architect Hugh Stubbins, it will have seven conference halls, theater and 1,200-capacity auditorium. Outstanding feature: a flaring sunbonnet roof...
...live on the air base as "a sort of male camp follower," he decides to aloha the boom. One day she finds him sprawled, like a particularly depraved passage out of Somerset Maugham, in a little grass shack in the banana slums, with not much more than a pith helmet between him and the kind of girl a man likes to have under the palms. She's the cook, he explains. Next day the Mrs. moves the Mr. into Air Force quarters...
...left flank, a knight in half-polished breastplates and only part-plumed helmet that he had not expected to use until spring, rode Pierre Mendès-France. With him were allied the Socialists, numerically strong but not strong enough, the pundits guessed, to carry Mendès to power. The Communists, though reduced in numbers and caught in contradictions of policy, rode the guerrilla trails in confident expectation of gaining 20 or 30 seats. Also present were roughhousing bully squads organized by brash young Anti-Taxer Pierre Poujade to tear down candidates and break up opposition meetings, Fascist-style...
...hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back to the Germans"), and an M.R.P. spokesman cried that Mendès had stolen the credit from M.R.P.'s Georges Bidault for ending the Indo-China war. Mendès-France gave as good as he got. For a neo-Fascist heckler of his acquaintance he reserved...
...with the wine. A captain with a hopelessly shattered skull keeps repeating a meaningless word, "Bjeljogorsche, Bjeljogorsche." A doctor says, as if he himself were making better sense: "He's up for a court-martial. He crashed on his motorbike, and he wasn't wearing his steel helmet." One man clucks over his buddy's baby picture as they drive a lorry-load of Jews to a crematorium. Irony is a blunt instrument in Author