Word: westphalia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name," growled Franz Josef. "I shall see to it that you disappear from this corner." True to his threat, Strauss promptly fired off a pair of angry letters-one to the chief of Bonn's traffic police, another to the interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding to driving without a license. And from the West German policemen's union came an irate demand that Strauss...
...elections last week in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's most populous state, 82-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats found the winds anything but contrary. The opposition Socialists, thinking that their surest bet was to campaign against "Atomic Death," in opposition to the Chancellor's policy of atomic rearmament inside NATO, were swept from office. The Christian Democrats won an absolute majority, the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia history...
...only wife to be similarly surprised. Hundreds of others in the Rhineland, Westphalia, and Bavaria were getting similar mail, and, despairing or vengeful, according to their temperament, rushing off to military posts to wave the letters in the faces of their baffled husbands...
...happen to glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...
...Bonn the old Chancellor glowered. His local defeat had national repercussions: seats in the federal upper house are chosen by the local governments. He was thus deprived of North Rhine-Westphalia's five votes there, and lost his two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat. Adenauer needs the two-thirds majority to put through constitutional changes permitting German rearmament...