Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev went down from Capitol Hill to Blair House just in time to swap his tan suit for his dark suit and play host at a state reception of the Soviet embassy. The first U.S. President to cross the embassy threshold, Dwight Eisenhower led his lady and 31 other Americans in joining 23 Russians in caviar, borsch and shashlik beneath crystal chandeliers. Said Khrushchev of his trip to date: "I'm very pleased-despite the strong propaganda, a warm reception." "Had anything he had seen changed his prior conceptions about...
...cold war, then looked at Mayor Poulson. "I want to ask you," he said, "why did you mention that? Already in the U.S. I have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went on: "Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get up on this favorite horse of yours and proceed in the same...
...which his oration produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed out that Quincy was only 28 years old and called for a cradle in which to rock...
Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke and went out. "I come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering--it has not yet reached the ears of man.... This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars--and yet they have done it themselves." Die Frohliche Wissenshaft...
...previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called 'god,'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense Him as a mighty spiritual 'presence' permeating all mankind and nature...