Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week, opening his campaign to become West Germany's next Chancellor, West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, 46, decided to meet some ugly whispers head on. Enemies were saying he was born a bastard and, during World War II, "turned his back on Germany" to become...
Brandt went on: "Least of all do I need to justify the fact that, even in my youth, I was a consistent enemy of the [Nazi] regime that brought us terror and war and meant the worst national betrayal." In his twelve-year Scandinavian exile, he said, he had won...
With the whisperers' charges met, Candidate Brandt launched into a rousing political attack on Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats. It would be an uphill struggle running against wily old Chancellor Adenauer, 84. Brandt showed he was ready to take some lessons from a man almost his own age...
To Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, the nation's eighth postwar general election seemed from the start to be under a curse. To begin with, there was the humiliating fact that the election had been made necessary by the riots against the U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty that...
Determined to overcome the reputation for arrogance that Kishi had earned for the Liberal-Democrats, Ikeda, 60, had adopted a conciliatory "low posture" before the voters. Between his ceremonial humility and his campaign reminders that his party had given booming Japan one of the world's highest rates of...