Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your March 14 account of the Rev. Listen Pope's attack on the modern mediums of peddling mass religion, I could imagine the looks of shocked indignation that passed over the pious and well-meaning faces of the Broadcasting and Films Commission of the National Council of Churches. His criticisms are long overdue. A basic misunderstanding of Christianity, which is a philosophy of life demanding fortitude and effort, has led to syrupy organ music, sweet-voiced heroes and heroines and gravelly-voiced villains, which put most religious programs on the level of moralistic soap operas . . . the casual listener...
...lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation. I cannot contravene the law. Scelba...
...invented the ancestral meringue-merengue, but the true origins are obscure. One oft-told Dominican tale is that the merengue got started when a party of Dominican villagers welcoming home a war hero with a maimed leg sympathetically copied his gimpy style of dancing. The story is supposed to account for the merengue's hip-swinging, bent-knee style...
...papers themselves. He has never made a public speech in his life, he uses a briefcase for his main office, and he carries in his left-hand coat pocket a sheaf of memo paper, held together by a paperclip, showing the status of his papers' cash account. Although he is a registered Democrat, many of his eleven dailies-scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse, 59, who in the past ten years has moved to the top ranks of U.S. publishing right behind Hearst and Scripps-Howard...
...clear water between you and the Communists." If that is the thing to do, Dulles asked, why not withdraw all the way to the U.S. mainland, behind 6,000 miles of water? The proposal might seem sensible to someone who looked only at a map, but it took no account of the all-important morale of the non-Communist millions in the Far East. His recent trip to Asia, Dulles told the Canadians, had convinced him that the only way to stop further aggression, and strengthen the will of Asians to resist Communism, is the positive U.S. policy to draw...