Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final abolition of all remaining duties and quotas between the member states. Impressed by the agreement, Britain last week pressed with new confidence for Common Market membership, and the U.S. took a big step toward expanded trade with it (see THE NATION ). Said Konrad Adenauer of the Brussels ac cord: "This is one of the most important events of European history in centuries...
...FIVE-DAY LOVER. The year's funniest import, a gay Gallic comedy of promiscuities in which Director Philipe de Broca, with the inspired collaboration of Comedian Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Love Game), assembles charming wisps of humor, twists them into a pretty little cord -and strangles every libertin (and libertine) in Paris...
...Deterling, 28, got the idea when he heard of Communist plans to tear up 500 yds. of the rail line between Albrechtshof and the West Berlin border. He drained the air from the emergency brakes so that no Communist aboard could stop the unscheduled express by yanking the emergency cord, then roared the locomotive at 50 m.p.h. past the Albrechtshof station into the British sector...
...Hermit tallied his 300 prayers a day by collecting 300 pebbles and discarding them one at a time. In the 11th century, Countess Godiva of Coventry, the celebrated ecdysiast, bequeathed to a certain statue of the Virgin Mary "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might count her prayers exactly." In the 12th century, the prayer now known as the Hail Mary* came into general use, and the beads began to be associated with the Virgin and take on something like their present form...
...Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from a tangle of wire punched into the back of the amplifier, a cord trails along the floor to the middle of the room. It snakes up a chair and into an outsize set of headphones worn by the pilot-uh, the listener. In the room, there is silence. But inside the earphones, pouring full-blast into the auditory canals is the sound...