Word: arching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached. But General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackley was faced with the need to get Assembly approval of four new nonpermanent Security Council members to replace those whose terms were expiring. Though Indonesia's President Sukarno was loudly threatening to withdraw his country from the U.N. if his arch-enemy Malaysia got one of the seats, it was clear that Malaysia, as well as Uruguay and the Netherlands, had more than enough strength to win places without a formal vote. But the fourth seat was hotly contested by both Jordan and Mali, and until all four were filled...
...reign in Spain, postulates the author, is "the cult of virility," and woman's fate is to be "enslaved and betrayed." On the reader's acceptance of this arch axiom teeters this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton, is to make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only...
...Democrats felt sorry for him and thought it was a case of sickness and disease, and we didn't try to capitalize on a man's misfortune. We never mentioned it." Lyndon's comment sent reporters scrambling for phones, caused many an eyebrow to arch in puzzlement-including Dwight Eisenhower's. Leaving Walter Reed Hospital after treatment for a respiratory ailment that resulted in sinus and ear infections, Ike declared when newsmen questioned him about Johnson's statement: "I can't recall...
...feel that she is singing in tongues. As it happens, missing the show's lines is a fringe benefit, unless one relishes lame quips ("For someone who was a postmaster-general of North America, you could have written"), exclamatory archaisms ("By thunder, I know the wench!") or arch witticism ("I invented bifocals because I thought a man should be able to see the girl in his arms at one and the same time as her husband coming in at the far door...
...Arch SCI majors...