Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point in Hamburg to train future officers of the leadership staff, Defense Minister Strauss decided to put in a good word for the old blood-and-iron ways. "Free of false prejudice and erroneous ideas of collective guilt," said he, "our Bundeswehr can now assume a new attitude toward the tradition. German soldiers need not be ashamed of this tradition. Follow the ageless tradition and the old ideals-selfless service, honor and bravery, linked to the needs of our time...
...college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet there are signs that the postwar German attitude toward the military is changing...
...level heard a faint call from the broken end of a compressed-air pipe sticking from the rubble. He yelled back, heard an answering croak: "There are twelve of us in here. Come and get us.'' That they did. Swiftly, yet with infinite care, the rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel pipe, poured in water, hot coffee, then soup, while a mine...
...good shape. They had found enough food in their own lunch pails and in those of dead companions in the chamber for four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine in tin cups, sipped it and used it to moisten their lips in the miner's standard survival procedure. Next evening Prince Philip, returning home from a visit to Canada, stopped at Springhill's hospital, and went from...
When he arrived in Paris January i, 1945, Nuncio Roncalli found the country in postwar ferment. Gaullists were unforgiving toward Vichyites and at odds with the Catholic-oriented M.R.P. The Communists were riding high. Yet during his eight years' stay. Nuncio Roncalli became one of the most popular men in Paris. One example of his talent for smoothing out differences: only three Vichy archbishops lost their jobs, despite the Gaullists' bitter feelings about them as collaborationists. In addition to respecting his ability, the French also liked his cuisine. Roncalli is known as what the Italians call "a powerful...