Word: obers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...halfback and forward lines stand intact. Marsh Schwartz, Tony Ober-schall, and John Felstiner, together with reserves Bill Rapp and Pete Erskine form the halfback strength which keyed Saturday...
...settlers from the old Cape Colony). Hottentots. Hereros and the largest colony of Germans ever to settle anywhere in the former German empire. The name of the capital's principal street is still Kaiserstrasse, and waiters in its sand-pitted beer parlors answer to the call of Herr Ober. For 35 years South West Africa (pop. 450,000). taken from Germany at Versailles and put under a League of Nations mandate, has been run by the Union of South Africa, whose Nationalist government has long wanted to throw off U.N. surveillance and incorporate it as a fifth province...
...advance royalties of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they set off on a mad fling that was to span the decade, cover a couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual orgies of the time, but he also kept...
...officials showed impatience with adults who were egging their children on. Delaware's Attorney General Albert Young announced that he would bring court action to revoke the charter of the race-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People (TIME. Oct. 11). In Baltimore, Police Commissioner Beverly Ober declared on TV that he would henceforth enforce all regulations making it illegal to persuade children to stay out of school. U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell said that the Justice Department was also watching the fomenters of strikes and riots. For the moment, at least, such words spoke a good...
...Father Johannes Schwertfirm, Roman Catholic pastor in the Bavarian town of Ober-Teisendorf was in trouble with the law. Again and again, he had vainly asked the authorities for permission to enlarge his church, built in 1429 and far too small for his present congregation. Turned down because of the church's historical value, Father Schwertfirm, 63, carefully removed the church's holy objects, then set off the explosives he had planted and blew up the building. His sentence: two months in jail...