Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adenauer knew that few Christian Democrats would 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...
...trial Brigadier Ahmed Abdulla Hamid, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, who had been chosen by Shennan and Moheiddin to head the new Supreme Council, was placed under house arrest. Testimony showed that among those slated for the revamped council (although neither knew of the plan) were one of the members of the court-martial itself and the army's chief investigator, who had prepared the case against Shennan and Moheiddin. Shennan haughtily denied that he would have confided in a 26-year-old captain ("He was not of my age, my rank, my standing"), and accused former top officials...
...ocean is not as well known as the near side of the moon. Discoveries follow every voyage. Under the Pacific, oceanographers have found deep trenches, at least one of them big enough to contain seven Grand Canyons, and a 1,000-mile range of high mountains that no one knew existed until just one year...
...greeting of the pipers, the investiture of new mayors and councilmen, the decorating of soldiers and civilians with everything from the Mėdaille Militaire to the Sanitation Cross with Palms. But wherever he was-the marketplaces, at a feast of whole roast sheep, or in private audience-he knew that those to whom he spoke may well have served with the Algerian rebels...
Even before she became a star, Ethel was a trouper. She knew what it was to make one-night stands in Main Street theaters, to sneak out of cheap hotels with the family luggage left behind in locked, unpaid-for rooms. She knew what it was to live in hall bedrooms that cost $9 a week, meals included. "It was a wonderful time to begin seeing America," said she, "just at the beginning of the changes that were to be so tremendous." For her, one-night stands were always good-in Jackson, or Little Rock, or Kalamazoo ("The celery...