Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to Heusinger, with the title chief of armed forces, will be Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 58, also an arrested suspect in the Hitler bomb plot. A round-faced man with spare hair and glasses, Speidel served in France, Russia and Italy in World War 11, became Rommel's chief of staff on the Western front. He was teaching history at Tubingen University in 1950 when Adenauer asked him to come to Bonn as an adviser, later sent him to Paris as West German observer to EDC and NATO...
...possible, he spends an hour or two on his sermon (he devotes his yearly six-week vacation to blocking out his sermons for a year in advance), then drives to the church in his 1953 Mercury, for a round of meetings, reports, pastoral counseling...
...finished, all the other animals produced paper from nowhere in particular, and began to scribble as fast as they could. Alice noticed that the Lizard, who was sitting in the front row, was the only one wrote anything original. All the others copied from his paper, and crowded round him so closely that Alice was afaraid the poor little creature would be smothered. Meanwhile the frog looked at the ceiling. "He couldn't look anywhere else, poor thing," thought Alice; "his eyes are in the top of his head...
Last week the Nationalists won an important round in their fight by sweeping 16 of 18 seats in South West Africa's territorial assembly elections. The territory's influential German bloc, whose 10,000 members warmed up to Hitler in 1939 and seem to be all for South Africa's racial apartheid now, provided the wide margin of victory. But the winners, for all their anti-U.N. gloating, intend to go slow in merging South West Africa into the Union. The Nationalist government apparently wants first to build up its influence to the point where German...
...first meeting last week, the talk was that Kishi had definitely settled on his candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership of the new party and the Prime Ministership, both to be decided...