Word: belonged
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THERE'S SOMETHING about English country houses that attracts a corpse. Walk into any Thropshire drawing room, peruse your surroundings carefully, and if they belong to a spacious mansion located on isolated and foggy cliffs, if the house is filled with unexpected and not altogether reputable guests, if, in particular, a wandering lunatic has just dropped in for tea, you will undoubtedly find a dead body lying behind the divan or under the sideboard. The laws of the country house weekend require it. The cast of wonderfully suspicious characters who have gathered in the neighborhood--the long-lost cousins...
...debate over nuclear policy has caused divisions within the U.S. Catholic Church. On the ramparts for the antinuclear activists are the 57 bishops, including Gumbleton, who belong to the American branch of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. They have been encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II, who has made the abolition of nuclear war a central theme of his papacy and who last year made a pilgrimage to the memorial at Hiroshima. Some have gone as far as Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, who has told those in his diocese not to work...
...where you belong," a palmist cryptically tells the hero of David Mamet's latest play. Edmond Burke (Colin Stinton) is not a classic conservative who spells his first name differently but a conventional 34-year-old who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side in middle-class complacency. He takes the palmist literally. Informing his wife that she is no longer spiritually or sexually attractive to him, he abruptly leaves home. Thus begins an odyssey into the sordid inferno of an urban sub-world...
...injected a new factor of suspense into the campaign. Said González last week: "We have all spent years trying to re-create a civilized Spain, a dignified Spain, a Spain with pride in democracy and liberty, and those 5% who don't want that do not belong in our system...
Kung Fu relies on using an opponent's strength against him. About 20 people now belong to the club, Crane said...