Word: konrad
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Ever since Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen discovered his wonderful X rays in 1895, physicists and physicians have been burning themselves, and sometimes patients as well, with accidental overdoses. And like the damage from exposure to more recently discovered sources of nuclear energy, X-ray burns have proved virtually incurable. Despite skin grafts, they often lead to progressive gangrene and successive amputations one famed "Xray martyr," Chicago's late Dr. Emil Grubbé, had no fewer than 93 operations before he died...
Torchlight Serenade. It was Erhard's first independent campaign since he took over as Chancellor from Konrad Adenauer, and he scored an impressive personal victory over West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Observers had wondered whether Onkel Ludwig's earnest, professorial platform style might not bore the voters. As it turned out, they seemed to lap it up. On election night, 60 teen-agers dropped around to serenade him by the light of torches and a pale quarter-moon. The tune was his campaign song...
...using poison gas in Viet Nam, and demanding withdrawal of American troops. It caused quite a flap for a day or two-until the boy withdrew his name. Both Sides of the Street. The octogenarian provided a more prolonged distraction. He was the Christian Democrats' Konrad Adenauer, who was noisily upset about the nuclear nonproliferation blueprint unveiled by the U.S. at the Geneva disarmament talks. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, though none too pleased with a plan that could leave West Germany out in the cold bombwise, had politely praised it as "an interesting contribution." Erhard agreed...
...Possibly because everyone remembered the classic incident in 1956 when Von Eckardt, then Konrad Adenauer's press chief, listened while der Alte chatted contemptuously about Erhard in a radio studio, not knowing that a tape recorder was running...
...years since he took command of the Christian Democratic Union and the nation from Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard has been widely accused of uninspired leadership. Yet when he formally kicked off his first campaign for office this week at a rally in Dortmund's vast Westfalenhalle, he appeared the man most likely to succeed when the nation goes to the polls on Sept...