Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ablest men in Adenauer's own party is Ludwig Erhard, Minister of Economics, who in the past two years has helped guide West Germany back to a relatively free economy. Generally considered a man to watch is 48-year-old Karl Arnold, president of Bonn's Bundesrat (Upper House), a hard-hitting Catholic trade-union leader who frequently acts as spokesman for the workers in his native Ruhr. No friend of Adenauer's, whom he considers too conservative, Arnold may some day be his rival for party leadership...
Thanks to its taciturn strong man, Police Chief José ("Chichi") Remón, Panama had three Presidents last week...
Legality at the Palace. That convinced Remón that he would have to try a third President. Even before the court spoke, the disgusted strong man cried: "If they want legality, I'll give them legality. I'll give them Arnulfo...
...Revolutionary Party and would have won the 1948 presidential elections if an electoral jury had not thrown out 2,714 of his ballots. When the Supreme Court declared ousted Daniel Chanis still the lawful President, Remón went straight to Arnulfo's Bella Vista home and invited the man he helped toss out in 1941 to take over at the palace...
...Smith found it, is one in which drill and discipline are taboo, and teachers have become abnormally afraid of boring pupils or straining their abilities. In worrying about such matters, they have long belittled what they call "verbal intelligence" and "bookishness," forgetting that "by far the greater part of man's wisdom is stored up in books...