Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon. Khanh won signed pledges of support from key military commanders, started pasting together still another proposed solution to South Viet Nam's unrest. Unable to reassume the strong-arm role of President that he had overconfidently relegated to himself only last month. Khanh was more than content to go back to his former title of Premier, returning Oanh to his regular post as Deputy Premier. Khanh even shaved off his famed goatee to mark "the start of a 'new' phase...
Flesh of Our Flesh. Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale believes the time is long past when Protestants could content themselves with sneering at Catholic Marian idolatry. Now, any criticism of Roman doctrine must be "accompanied by a positive discussion of the mother of our Lord as viewed from a Biblical and evangelical perspective." Pelikan argues that Mary cannot be ignored because she is the "warrant for the Christian declaration that our Lord was a true man, flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone." She also has a significance for the church: "the brief description of her career...
...even Mrs. Hoggenheimer could stomach the little o's nauseating ambitions, and up she chucked him into Oyster Bay, where he was at last content to stay, for he had had his taste of society. And vice versa...
...would have taken a Will Rogers-Mark Twain partnership to turn the Democrats' smoothly controlled convention into compelling TV fare. But even if the intellectual or emotional content had been higher, the networks' tactics of rushing reporters hither and yon would have confused the viewer. The trouble, argues Cronkite, lies with the networks' "efforts to stay competitive at the cost of telling a cohesive story." Said he: "In many cases it's difficult to understand what's going on, because the entertainment and pictorial aspects of the story keep getting...
Whereupon Tshombe announced that unless Massamba-Debat immediately stopped supporting the Congolese rebels, some 50,000 Brazzaville citizens who live in Leopoldville would be deported. Tshombe's object: to overload Brazza ville's shaky economy, fan enough dis content to overthrow Massamba-Debat's already strife-torn government...