Word: weidner
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...Hans Weidner had been hoping for months to escape drab East Germany and make his way to the West. The odds were against him, for Weidner, 40, was a cripple on crutches who lived in the village of Neugersdorf, 115 miles southeast of the frontier of freedom. But Hans Weidner did have one major asset, the 30-passenger bus that he operated for the local Communist regime. It was an ugly thing, and ancient. Its chassis creaked, and the engine coughed; a cream-colored coat of paint could not disguise the welts and bruises of two decades of chugging service...
RICHARD T. WEIDNER...
...Weidners were bombed out, and the two women had only one coat left between them. From the Red Cross came news that Father Weidner had been captured in Austria. Sybille no longer played Schumann in the evenings. That year there was no Christmas dinner...
...went to work for the Americans, and things were a little better. Most meals consisted of soup and potatoes, with a thin slice of sausage and cheese three times a week in the evening, and a small chunk of meat on Sundays. By standing in line for hours, Frau Weidner could get bread and now & then some cereal. Sybille even brought home some G.I. candy for her small brother. Dieter looked at it uncomprehendingly. "What is that?" he asked...
...third inovation in long established Weidner procedure has to do with cards sent out to people who have requested books on the waiting list, telling them their books are in. The library staff sent out 18,000 of them last year, and in most every case had a hectic time making out the names and addresses to which the cards were to be sent...