Word: herr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret of casting steel," processed more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred devoted seven years to casting a cannon in steel instead of the traditional bronze; the weapon later pulverized the French in the six-month...
...chorale-preludes, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier presented a constant parade of startling dissonances. Later periods were represented by Mozart's charming, if second-drawer, Sonata No. 15 in C; Brahms' rich-textured Fugue in A Flat Minor (a most rare key); and Hermann Schroeder's chorale-prelude Schoenster Herr Jesu...
...will open her program with four works by Bach. These will be followed by The Fugue in A flat Minor, by Brahms, Schonster Herr Jesu, by Schroeder, and The Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, by Piston...
...Dear Herr Erhard." Erhard had the sympathy of a growing number of Christian Democratic Party politicos, who were muttering openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
...risk a party split merely to salvage Ludwig Erhard's pride, and that all were linked in timidity by the desire to win in 1961. Finally, Erhard was persuaded to accept a compromise from Adenauer that included neither apologies nor promises. A new Adenauer letter, addressed to "Dear Herr Erhard," was read to the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus: "The intention to offend you or degrade your reputation was absolutely remote to me . . . You can be sure of my full confidence in you as a politician and as a man ... I gratefully recognize the great merits of your political...