Word: custodianship
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...perennial appeal has stemmed from the distinctive, comforting, we're-all-in-this-together voices of two women: Irma Rombauer, who wrote and self-published the original Joy in 1931, and her daughter Marion Rombauer Becker, who first served as her mother's helper and later assumed full custodianship of the ongoing endeavor. Dying of cancer, Marion concluded her acknowledgments to the 1975 edition in a valedictory manner: "But Joy, we hope, will always remain essentially a family affair, as well as an enterprise in which its authors owe no obligation to anyone but themselves...
...Arab gulf leaders, Fahd is now most vulnerable to charges he is a Western puppet. Shi'ite Muslims have been disputing Saudi custodianship of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina as illegitimate. The presence of foreign forces risks sowing the seeds of long-term agitation to unseat the house of Saud, though the presence of a pan-Arab force will take much of the onus off Fahd...
...strikingly different in style and temperament, and their philosophies of government are at least as far apart as Hollywood and Plains, Ga. Yet when they came together last Wednesday in Atlanta, their distinctions were for the moment brushed away by the one thing they have in common: their custodianship of the presidency. As Ronald and Nancy Reagan joined Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter for the dedication of the new $25 million Carter Presidential Center, what might have passed as a routine ribbon cutting provided the nation with a rare glimpse of adversaries transcending enmity with tact, grace and high style...
...Aldabra for defense purposes," he said. But the scientists were obvious ly unwilling to settle for bureaucratic vagueness. One biologist dryly noted that, of course, the giant land tortoise could always survive in the London Zoo. "The Union Jack flying over Aldabra is evidence of our custodianship of a biological treasure house," the magazine New Scientist reminded Healey. "It is not a license to kill...
...called Vinland map [Oct. 15] would never be accepted in court. It fails in practically every particular for the establishment of authenticity. The authorship is unknown; the date of its supposed original drawing is a wild speculation: there is no evidence of its custodianship from 1957 back...