Word: covetous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thou shall not covet thy wife" does have the ring of a rather strange Eleventh Commandment. But I felt sure the Pope was not that stupid. He isn't. The full text of his talk is a magnificent treatise on the dignity of the human person. No woman, says the Pope, should be viewed only as a sex object. Not even your wife...
...their gold reserves to compete with Western buyers on the already strained world oil market. This would push prices higher and cause incalculable economic turmoil. Or the Soviets could try to conquer Persian Gulf oilfields, which begin just across their southern border. Kremlin leaders flatly deny that they covet oil vital to the industrial West, but intelligence sources report that even Saudi Arabian leaders have held informal talks with the Soviets about the possibility of selling crude in exchange for Soviet aid in refinery construction. Given the political instability of most Middle Eastern regimes, many Western experts fear the Soviets...