Word: kurier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much more than one-third of the voters. Throughout the country there was a deep and exciting awareness that a watershed had been reached. After 20 years of uninterrupted rule, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats prepared to take their places on the opposition benches. Said the conservative Bayern Kurier: "The political generation of postwar times finally belongs to the past...
...Common Market, increased economic growth, and a money-saving reorganization of Austria's nationalized industries. The opposition criticism was mild because, as the Socialists argued, the government's goals would have been much the same even if the coalition had continued. Declared Vienna's independent Kurier last week: "The first great duel was a pleasant disappointment...
...German advertisers cynically bought space in official Nazi organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler was up to. After daring to call the Nazi election victories of 1932 a TRIUMPH OF FOLLY, the Hannoverscher Kurier lost one-fifth of its circulation in a fortnight...
...press, in the U.S. and Europe, sounded off with extravagant anger. "The most murderous world title fight in history," said the London Daily Sketch. "Is this the Saturday night pastime of a civilized people?" asked the New York Times in an editorial. "An unprecedented boxing scandal," agreed the Vienna Kurier. The New York Post called boxing "organized primitivism," and demanded that it be outlawed. "Professional boxing," reported the Vatican radio, "is a morally objectionable sport...