Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter. The Russian had told the President that the U.S. had forced the Soviet Union to pay "in gold" for American relief sent to starving Russians in 1921-23. "I was in Russia in 1922," said Herter, who was Herbert Hoover's assistant at the time, "and I went down the Volga. The money which the Congress sent to buy food for the hungry people of Russia was a gift from the American people. You probably don't remember, because you were too young." Replied Kozlov: "I remember very well because I was hungry." Nixon broke...
...Jack Levine's controversial Welcome Home, which shows a bloated, translucent, two-star general banqueting with his friends. "It looks," said General Eisenhower, "like a lampoon more than art, as far as I am concerned." Nobody interrupted to invoke the shades of Hogarth, Goya or Daumier, so Ike went on to say that in the future, "I think I might have something to say if we have another exhibition anywhere." Possibly, "there ought to be one or two people" on the Government's selection boards "that, like most of us here, say we are not too certain exactly...
...still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged in a crude bit of humor that began, "Look at Adenauer in the nude, and you will understand Germany," and then went on from there...
...result was considerably less exciting than the hullabaloo that went on outside the hall. Moscow, objecting to holding the West German election in Berlin, had made noisy threats before hand. Allied officials nervously watched the Autobahnen, expecting some kind of traffic obstruction by the Russians, and scores of police with walkie-talkies moved into position to guard against Communist demonstrations at the voting hall...
...last time the Saar "went home" to Germany, after a plebiscite in 1935, scarlet swastika banners waved, brownshirts yelled "Heil Hitler," and the Fuhrer's guttural shouts rasped from street-corner loudspeakers. No such vaunts and threats disturbed the sooty serenity of the Saar last week when the famed coal and steel region on the French border was restored a second time to the German economy...