Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germans. The one thing all Germans claim to want is reunification of Germany. Nobody can give it to them but Russia, and it won't. But Moscow would consent to a loose confederation between East and West Germany. The asking price: West German withdrawal from NATO, renunciation of nuclear weapons (which, the Russians indicated to the British, they regard as more dangerous in German hands than in any others). Khrushchev conceded that Adenauer would prefer NATO to a German confederation. But by so doing, said Atheist Khrushchev piously, Catholic Adenauer is rejecting "both the Christian and atheist" road...
Would Dr. Erhard, asked Adenauer, accept the decision of 19 Christian Democrat leaders assembled at that moment in his office, and become their candidate for President of the republic? Replied Erhard: "I just had a beating in the sauna, and I don't want to get another in the voting. Will the party stand solidly behind me?" Ja, rasped the old Chancellor, you can count on full support. Helplessly aware that he might be setting himself up for the beating of his life, Erhard accepted "in principle"-so long as he would have a word to say in naming...
...want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were returning. But last week the government took its first decisive action against the corrupt in high places...
...Frustrated? Zsa Zsa has ideas about the book: "I know practically everyone in the whole world," she says in her rich Hungarian accent, which is as hard to render in print as Eliza Doolittle's cockney. "I want to make it clear that I'm not just the dumb blonde who wisecracks...
...Norwegian tour. Must be willing to carry own rucksack 20 miles a day." But both kinds cost money, and for purposes of wheedling cash and supplies an impressively academic purpose is a requirement. Said one expedition veteran: "The trick is to decide which place in the world you most want to visit, then find some compelling scientific or historical reason for going there...