Word: cuckoos
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...harangue the southwest voters by radio. Adenauer's Housing Minister Eberhard Wildermuth died of a heart attack in Tübingen after strenuously pleading the government's cause. From ancient Heidelberg to the Black Forest and all through the area known principally for its vacation resorts, its cuckoo clocks and its conservative politics, other leading ministers and oppositionists campaigned tirelessly...
Almost every day this month, moving vans from Frankfurt-am-Main have lumbered into Bonn. Behind them trailed the chrome-grinning cars of U.S. occupation families, loaded with children, cats and dogs, Bavarian cuckoo clocks. Some 1,000 U.S. occupation employees and dependents attached to the Office of U.S. High Commissioner for Germany-HICOG for short-have moved to the capital. In overcrowded Bonn, they will jostle beside burgeoning French and British communities...
...right eye in a motor accident) and to live on a prosperous farm in Suffolk, he has not forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...
...short speech after the audience had been quieted he told of how the orchestra had learned "sweet, soothing, and soporific" pieces for just such an eventuality. He said the orchestra called them lollipops. They played Lollipop No. 2, "On First Hearing the Cuckoo in Spring" by Delius. Afterwards, when the audience began noisily cheering Beecham again held up his hand for quiet and announced that "members of the orchestra have raised eyebrows. They have played Lollipop No. 2 and you are still awake." It was not until he shouted above the noise, "I will NOT play another selection," that everyone...
Hoping against hope that out of one of themWill come the reason for it all; and alwaysOut pops the arid chuckle and centuriesOf cuckoo-spit...