Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would probably weaken international confidence in the pound.) To the rest of Europe's politicians and money managers, the fact that their nations had at last begun to move toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope. Glowed "the engineer of the West German miracle," rotund Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "Who will blame me for feeling deep personal satisfaction? After all, it was I who eight years ago in a world of destruction, disorder and disbelief called for convertibility. What did I get? Mockery and scorn. Yet of all conceivable forms of integration in the free...
Setting forth last month, armed with a hoard of cigars to chain-smoke, rotund Minister Erhard announced that he was going East with an open mind...
This, in short, is the past-present, one which began with the Republic and which ended with the more rotund enormities of the Civil War period. Most of it, with its uncompromising verticality, its clinging ivy, its jutting, discreetly windows, survives in a comparatively limited area...
...town of Prades (pop. 5,000) on the edge of the French Pyrenees, where he resumed his concert career eight years ago as an exile from Franco's Spain. From all over Western Europe musicians and disciples poured into town to play for and honor the rotund little man with the shiny bald head who is the hero of music's most lovingly cultivated modern legend...
...Russians, then the Chinese Reds, then the Eastern Europeans, with Rumania bringing up the rear (they always leave or arrive in that order). When the recess ended, the two front rows of seats reserved for foreign Communist observers were empty -save for Poland's Ambassador to Belgrade, rotund little Henryk Grochulski...