Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late Regret. It is difficult to see how. Their religious element is mostly discussion of erudite Anglican minutiae and spiritual snobbisms that are more likely to chill the unconverted than warm them. They are loaded with off-the-cuff comments that Rose Macaulay herself would have been distressed to see in print. And it is doubtful that many sinners will be changed by her moving repentance of her life's love: "I told you once that I couldn't really regret the past. But now I do regret it, very much . . . Not all the long years of happiness...
...house had a green bath in the attic, but he had not signed the guest register and could find no witness who could positively remember having seen him there. On his way to Liverpool, Hanratty claimed, he had traveled in a train compartment with a man who wore gold cuff links initialed with the letter E. Despite appeals from the defense, no E came forward to testify...
...cries of protest from foes of capital punishment, who believed that if Hanratty with his history of mental illness, had pleaded "guilty, but insane," he would have escaped the gallows. Execution was set for March 7, pending appeal-or the last-minute appearance of the man with the gold cuff links...
CARLOS RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ, 48, editor of the Communist newspaper Hoy, professor of economics at Havana University and now: president of the vitally important Agrarian Reform Institute. Fond of good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words...
...tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal's coat of arms...