Word: crystallic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for this strange pattern of events became crystal clear the next day, when New York City's new mayor, Tammany-backed, Bronx-backed Robert F. Wagner Jr., announced some of his own appointments. Named a justice of Brooklyn's court of special sessions (which deals mostly with misdemeanors) was Vincent R. Impellitteri. The judgeship, though it pays $19,500 a year, was no longer the apple of Impy's eye. Main consideration: by staying on the city payroll in any capacity for two more years, Impellitteri will become eligible for what will probably be the highest...
December: The holiday season will begin as usual, with Macy's Christmas parade, and a denial of parole to Alger Hiss. Then animositics will melt in the glow of holiday good feeling, and newsmen will be forced to dust off their crystal balls once again...
...silver-fox industry in Canada, whose sales dropped from $5,000,000 to $463,000 in 13 years, is trying to make a comeback. Breeders will soon kick off $75,000 campaign to popularize new styles, colors and name (probably Crystal...
...servicemen, at least half of them non-Catholics. Once he welcomed 60 sailors from the U.S. Sixth Fleet. After the Pope's speech, a chief petty officer suddenly broke out with "Waddya say, boys? Three cheers for His Holiness!" The "Hip, hip, hooray ... His Holiness!" rattled the crystal chandeliers...
Protestant Cullmann here seems to side with the Catholics. There is scant doubt, he says, that the Matthew text is both accurate and very old. Furthermore, the meaning of the original Aramaic is crystal-clear. "Kepha" was the Aramaic word for "rock"; it is also the name by which Christ called Peter...