Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site was carefully chosen, for the opening scene of Ulysses is set there. So was the date, for June 16 was the 58th anniversary of "Bloomsday," the day of Leopold Bloom's 24-hour odyssey through "dear dirty Dublin" in the pages of Ulysses...
...royal visitor, the King of Bulgaria, was impressed with many things he saw in St. Petersburg, but what impressed him most was the man named Carl Fabergé. "My dear Fabergé," said King Ferdinand, "if you were in Bulgaria, I would make you my minister." To which the famous court jeweler replied, "No, no, your majesty, not politics, I beg of you. But minister of the goldsmith's art, why yes, sire, if you will...
...straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Harvard Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud, proclaiming "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half time the 'Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD." There was an explanatory crossline: "HELD BREATH TOO LONG...
Newly emphasizing the authority of the Bible, Catholics freely borrow from the best in Protestant scriptural scholarship. In theology, there has been a renewed appreciation for a doctrine dear to Luther's heart: the concept of the priesthood of all believers. Catholic moralists now pay full respect to the right of the individual conscience before God. Barriers that to Protestants seem almost insurmountable remain-notably the Marian emphasis of Catholicism, and the supremacy of the Pope-but Küng asks: "If Martin Luther had lived in the Catholic Church of today, what course would he have followed...
Nobody went through the window, and few really went through the wringer. But the convulsion that swept the stock market cost millions of Americans dear in anticipated profits, and particularly the amateurs among "small investors" who put their money into the market at or near its peak and sold out at last week's low. Not since the dread year of 1929 had trading been so heavy (average daily volume: 10,000,000 shares) or the ticker tape lagged so late. Before the week was over, delays of an hour or more in the tape became routine...