Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was as cross and jumpy as a baited bear and as busy as a bee at twilight. Reason: Der Alte (the Old One), as West Germans call their indomitable leader, was afraid his C.D.U. (Christian Democrats) might lose a crucial provincial election this week in North Rhine-Westphalia. This is the largest and most important of West Germany's nine states (it contains the Ruhr). Its nearly 10 million eligible voters would only elect 200 new deputies to the state legislature at Diisseldorf, but they were also rendering judgment on how much Konrad Adenauer...
...twilight at Dienbienphu. Narrow-eyed with loss of sleep, the French sentries peered through the monsoon haze towards the Communist trenches less than roo yards away. All was quiet, and the tired 10,000-man garrison hoped for a fair night's rest. At GHQ in Hanoi, an officer reported: "Lull at Dienbienphu...
Born at Clemansville, Wis., in 1887, Hooton graduated from Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., in 1907. Among his many publications were "Up From the Ape," "Apes, Men and Morons," "Twilight of Man," and "Young Man, You're Normal." His last book, "Physical Anthropology of the Irish," is now in the process of publication...
...Lady for Ransom, by Alfred Duggan. The twilight of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a fine historical novel (TIME...
...Lady for Ransom, by Alfred Duggan. The twilight of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a fine historical novel (TIME...