Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adenauer's Ordeal. The untold story of West Germany's shortcomings might be called the ordeal of that great old man Konrad Adenauer. Der Alte saw his deepest convictions shaken. Even his closest intimates only partly appreciate how severely that ordeal tried his spirit and paralyzed his decision. Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered...
Acting on instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador James B. Conant made a special call on West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn one day last week. His mission: to hand Adenauer a German translation of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' proposals for expanding the political and economic roles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (TIME, April 30). This, Conant told Adenauer gravely, should be regarded as a major statement of U.S. policy...
Oaken-hearted Konrad Adenauer, who has won a lot of political victories by force of character and the iron logic of his policies, came through again last week, but not without difficulties. His normally ashen face lightly tanned after a long Swiss vacation, he took autocratic command of his Christian Democratic Union's annual conference at Stuttgart and sought to silence all talk of picking his successor or changing his policies...
...University Faculty members are among the 30 scientists and teachers named yesterday to the National Academy of Science. Konrad E. Bloch, professor of Chemistry, and Georg von Bekesy, senior research fellow in Psychophysics, were elected to the research and advisory body...
...self-analysis had left him with few neurotic cares (among them: an anxiety about missing trains and some irregularity of his bowels, or, as he called them, his Konrad). He worked prodigiously for nine months of the year, received patients from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with only an hour out for lunch, took little longer over dinner with his family (wife, three sons, three daughters and sister-in-law Minna Bernays*) before burying himself in the task of assembling data and writing down his theories. He regularly worked until...