Word: thuringia
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...sending millions of words to Washington. With his tongue only barely tucked in his cheek, Thomas A. Donovan, former U.S. consul in Iran, writes: "Background studies on such live topics as Recurrent Themes in the Bulgarian Press Treatment of the Black Sea as a Sea of Peace or Whither Thuringia: the Principality's Progress Under the New Course are considered useful for filling the files at home." In Paris, an embassy labor attache, leaving after four years, remarked ruefully that he doubted if anyone anywhere had really read one of his reports. The result is that communications break down...
...delegates decided that the immediate pleasure of electing Bishop Lilje might be offset by Communist reprisals during his six-year term. At the same time they rebuffed the Communists by refusing even a seat on the Evangelical Church's governing council to Bishop Moritz Mitzenheim of Thuringia, the nearest thing to a fellow traveler in E.K.D. 's top echelon...
...charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close as 20 miles beyond that, as Sergeant Nolen knew, lay outposts of an elite, nuclear-armed Soviet army group of 20 to 25 divisions and more than 5.000 modern tanks. Nolen's key weapon was his telephone: 30 minutes after his warning, five crack U.S. divisions...
...crush of people at the city hall of Schoneberg borough stood peasant women and workers from as far as Thuringia, 125 miles away. In a rumble of gossip they waited for their packages. "Where is the food from?" a woman asked. "Vom West en," someone replied. "Von Eisenhower," another corrected...
...Russian bigwigs customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by Malenkov, Beria and Molotov, and in many a dingy meeting hall from Thuringia to Tibet, dutiful comrades set to study them. It was important to get things straight, for this was the new catechism of Communism, to be echoed in a thousand Communist speeches and editorials. Thus Stalin got his reserved seat in the hierarchy of Red saints ("beside the greatest...