Word: theo
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...Whoops Nos. 4 and 5 bonds. Says he: "I felt secure. That was the whole point of buying the bonds. I didn't want to make extra money. I just didn't want to lose what I had. I'm not a rich man." For Theo Fullmer, 70, and his wife Bettie, 63, of Rexburg, Idaho, the Whoops default was their second disaster. In 1976 the Teton River Dam collapse in Idaho destroyed a motel they had owned for nearly 13 years. After the U.S. Government paid them about $100,000 for their loss, they invested...
...West Germany, leading journalists belittled Stern. Said Lothar Loewe, director of West Berlin's TV station SFB: "The whole affair is the result of checkbook journalism, of which Stern is the worst offender." In a front-page editorial in Hamburg's prestigious weekly newspaper Die Zeit, Editor Theo Sommer said, "When lightweights are combined with heavy money, the controlling responsibilities in journalism are easily lost...
...attempt on his life, and both of his forearms were swollen and swathed in bandages or compresses; yet the diaries include an entry apparently written that day. Historian Irving, in his new translation of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor, to be published next month, quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from Oct. 30,1944, "The Führer confided in me that after this renewed attack of pain the trembling in his leg and hands was much more violent." Pulitzer-Prizewinning Historian John Toland concurred with Irving's disbelief. Said Toland: "Witnesses...
Mondrian was not the only Dutch artist to pursue the dream of social renewal through ideal abstraction-though he was the most gifted one. What of his less renowned colleagues, painters like Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leek and Georges Vantongerloo, architect-designers like J.J.P. Oud or Gerrit Rietveld? Though they all used much the same language of geometrical shapes, primary colors and rectilinear layout, their variety as artists is faithfully rendered in the show...
...Theo Hedding, a member of the Harvard New Age Group, criticized people for isolating themselves from other human beings and reality. When people talk of hydrogen bombs, they should think that it is not "they" but "we" who are to blame, he said...