Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield choked with so many cities, slums, mining villages and cotton mills, greyhound stadia, slagheaps, canals and railroad sidings that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most populous region of Britain outside London. Its people are a nubbly mixture of English yeomen, Welsh shepherds and Irish peasants, congealed into Lancastrians by the Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire...
...great war-making resources of Manchuria and the food-producing potential of Formosa, which are both now lost to Japan. A livelier concern to the U.S. is the possibility that an independent Japan might one day be drawn too close to the Communist mainland. In Communist theorizing, Japan, the Ruhr of the Orient, is the big prize in the East...
...with fine driving snow whipping off the Rhine into the capital city of Bonn. The Communists were early in action, staging "a fighting day for the whole nation" in the cities of the Eastern zone. A delegation of "East German mothers" arrived in Bonn and joined a crowd of Ruhr rowdies who paraded around chanting, "Adenauer is following in Hitler's footsteps-throw him out." The Socialist trade unions of Munich turned out 25,000 members carrying banners with the slogan: "We don't want to die for dollars or rubles...
Then, as the route swerved through the traffic-clogged heart of the Ruhr, a blinding snowstorm covered the road with an eight-inch blanket of snow in a single hour. On the worst stretch, co-drivers had to run ahead to guide their partners through a maze of stalled and jackknifed trailer trucks...
Adenauer had hand-picked Theodor Blank to organize Germany's new army precisely to avoid the traditional working-class hostility to the army. No heel-clicking, stiff-backed militarist, but an ex-union official who still speaks in the pawky idiom of the Ruhr workman...