Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your [contributor] from Evansville, Ind. is incensed about the decision of the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission concerning artificial insemination, which deems it at least a "Breach of Marriage" [TIME...
...best analogy that occurs to me is that of "ghost" writing. Many a political leader who can't write good speeches . . . lets his advisers . . . write speeches for him. Then he delivers them, as if they were really his own, and the crowd applauds. That . . . is a "breach of personality," I think. It makes a man what...
What next? The Western powers would present this record to the world, presumably under Article 39 of the U.N. Charter, which authorizes the Security Council to act on "any threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression." And Russia, as usual, would stymie any action in the Council...
Your article "Breach of Marriage" [TIME, Aug. 9] incensed me. I doubt that any intelligent person will subscribe to the opinion of the Church of England in this matter...
...brushes the letter of the law aside and sympathetically permits a Portuguese captain to communicate with "the enemy" (the captain's beloved daughter, who lives in Germany). But it is Scobie's own wife, Louise, who gnaws the hole that is destined to grow into "an enormous breach [in] ... his integrity." Fever-racked, miserable Louise knows too well that though her husband may once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved," Scobie one day sets his integrity aside, surreptitiously...