Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archbishop Rummel declined to comment. But in Rome a Vatican spokesman quickly slapped down the letter as "a grave error." Apart from the fact that the New Orleans group committed a breach of discipline in making public an appeal over the authority of their archbishop, they should have known that the Holy See is unalterably opposed to all forms of racial discrimination and that it has interpreted segregation as discrimination. "It is utterly disquieting," said a member of the Holy Office, "that there should be Catholics so ignorant of Christian doctrine and fundamentals. The only charitable view one can place...
...Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely put the arm on the interloper: "Now you will have to go, Lady Olivier." Said Lady Olivier ruefully after her ejection: "None of the lords moved a muscle. It was what, if I had been on stage, I would describe...
...mere cells of the whole. The problem is to drag, float and worry The Gun (recast from C. S. Forester's novel of that name) halfway across Spain to the walled city of Avila. The year is 1810. The objective: to bring down the wall, storm the breach and recapture Avila from the headquarters garrison...
...though a majority had indeed voted in favor of united action, an equal majority was opposed to the U.S. position of maintaining a stiff differential. Concluded Paris' Le Monde: "Britain has played the part of a battering ram, and her partners are going to take advantage of the breach that has been opened...
Clair de Lune. In Hartford, Conn., Clarence S. Grant, charged by police with breach of the peace, resisting arrest and lascivious carriage, pleaded "impaired awareness...