Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without a sewing machine. The second follows her student-revolutionary fiance to Siberia. The third elopes with a Gentile. Tevye's buffetings are preludes to a communal sorrow, an edict ordering the Jews to sell their property and leave the land...
...began when the citizens of Starving Alive protested that they weren't. "Why should a thriving kolkhoz [communal] village bear such a degrading name," demanded the local paper, "especially on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution? Such names are references to a past that has been overcome. And there are far too many of them...
...wrote Ernest Kirschten in his book Catfish and Crystal, "St. Louis dozed off. Maybe it was tired. Maybe Prohibition was not only a shock but also a sedative to this beer city. Depression was no stimulant. More than ever, St. Louis turned in on itself, contemplated its communal navel...
Owning Your Own. This one-man veto was a dramatic demonstration of one of the differences between a co-operative and a new form of communal housing that is making rapid strides throughout the U.S.-the condominium. More and more buyers are demanding them, builders are building them, and state legislatures are making laws authorizing them. Last month New York became the 40th state to have done so in the past three years. A condominium (a word deriving from a 6th century B.C. Roman law of joint sovereignty) is, in effect, an apartment house in which tenants really own their...
...bearded ecclesiastic who might have stepped into the present day from an llth century Byzantine mosaic. Ball quoted chapter and verse to Makarios, showing that the U.N. in previous actions has usually favored the maintenance of the status quo and has repeatedly approved partition as a solution to communal disputes-a solution abhorrent to Makarios and the Greek Cypriots. Throughout the negotiations, Makarios would nod sagely as if agreeing with every point Ball raised. Then he would beatifically repeat that the Cyprus problem should...