Word: weste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obedient satellite world of Eastern Europe, the press was quick to crow, "A Personal Victory for Nikita Khrushchev," and it became indelicate to attack the classic enemy, "American ruling circles." The "Paris-Bonn Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...
...saving ("The position of both sides on certain points became closer") communique of a spare 149 words. As their final assignment, the foreign ministers had the tricky job of getting out of .the boat without rocking it. At one point, they got stuck over the problem of whether the West and East Germans at Geneva should be described as "advisers who participated," as the West wanted, or "participants who advised," as Gromyko wanted. Typically, the ministers decided just to avoid any mention of the subject...
...month thousands of young Frenchmen apply for jobs in the Sahara fields. French newspapers refer to the Sahara as "our California," and the man most responsible for the Sahara agrees. Says France's Minister Delegate Jacques Soustelle: "This desert should come to mean to France what the Far West meant at a certain period to the American states on the Atlantic coast...
There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...
Little was heard of the tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...