Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Change. After his personal success in the elections, Erhard is expected to stay on as Economics Minister. He would also like to take over Vice Chancellor Franz Blikher's chairmanship of the Cabinet's economic committee, which would enable him to gain overall direction of German economic policy. Up to now he has had to work in tandem with balky Finance Minister Schäffer, who has incurred Adenauer's displeasure by holding back rearmament funds and thus delaying Adenauer's plans for stepping up German participation in NATO. Inevitably there is talk that Erhard might...
...qualities that won him the award−an unflagging humanism coupled with an unremitting skepticism. Pressed to make "one wish in the name of humanity," Camus unhesitatingly answered, "Freedom." Asked about his enemies, he replied with a shrewd Gallic twinkle: "One has to know how to make people forgive success...
...polar expeditions. It was good, hard-selling copy of the Hathaway eyepatch school. And sell it did when the ad appeared a fortnight ago in Havana newspapers. Grinning and snickering, Cubans quickly bought out the local dealer's whole stock. But in spite of the ad's success, further publication was hastily suspended. Reason: Jarman-in-a-beard was a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, the tenacious rebel who burrowed into eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains eleven months ago and has since then been plaguing Cuban Strongman Fulgencio Batista with guerrilla warfare...
...first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story, the Nürnberg trials. If only' some of them equal the quality of the first, CBS's Twentieth Century will be far ahead of the real one in that it can be pronounced a success...
Sentiment & Flair. Much of the credit for San Francisco's success goes to Vienna-born General Director Kurt Herbert Adler, 52, who took over the company three years ago, after the death of Impresario Gaetano Merola. A sentimental Neapolitan, Merola had built up the company and fenced it in with a traditional repertory. But Adler inherited not only a flourishing company but a sophisticated audience ready for new and different opera...