Word: ruhr
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...came back with a permanent interest in Europe's industry, a newly acquired ability to speak French, and a conviction that the U.S. would have to deal with the world's problems for a long time to come. "Chicago," he said, "is not so far from the Ruhr as people think...
...main street of the Ruhr Valley city of Gelsenkirchen one morning last week, a schoolgirl marched up to a young man and popped an odd sort of question. "Herr Huett," said she, "what about Goethe's Prometheus?" Without a moment's hesitation, the young man threw back his head and began to recite...
Born in 1893 in Germany's turbulent Ruhr, Gomez was actually Wilhelm Zais-ser. He had got his taste for fighting in Germany's World War I army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. When the bloody "workers' rebellion" broke out in the Ruhr in 1923, Zaisser organized workers' brigades. He was already known as the "Red General of the Ruhr." Taken prisoner, he escaped to Russia, where he became a Soviet citizen and a colonel in the Red army. During the Nazi regime, he returned to Germany, a leader and organizer...
...rain that lashed the green Ruhr Valley, one sleek Mercedes after another swung off the highway and pulled up in the courtyard of a big white farmhouse. Well-fed, important-looking Germans hurried inside. A movie-fan would have guessed that some plot was afoot...
...same time. Likely candidates, selected from schools all over Germany, are invited to Haus Villigst for a screening period; those who pass are accepted on six-month trial. During their first term at Haus Villigst, students do no studying at all. Instead, they take jobs as regular workers in Ruhr mines and factories. Their wages pay for their college expenses the following year. During this first half-year, students live a close community life at the Haus, exposed constantly to nondenominational Christianity in the form of prayers, hymns, Bible readings, and discussion groups...