Word: deed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very likely the thieving steward of Glastonbury Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. "The story goes," say the Opies, "that at the time of the Dissolution, the abbot ... sent his steward to [Henry VIII] with a Christmas gift: a pie in which were hidden the title deeds of twelve manors. On the journey, Jack Horner is said to have opened the pie and extracted the deed of the Manor of Mells . . . His descendants live there to this...
...they have been unable to see any prospects of bettering themselves socially or economically, have turned in sheer hopelessness to the . . . lawless alternatives left to them. Threatened by the monster they have created, the European citizens of the larger South African centers have seemingly still no conscience regarding their deed . . . If we do not destroy this monster and remove its cause, it will destroy...
Ointment, Not Lash. Now, in the space of one year, he himself had translated the Dulles words into the Dulles deed: the Japanese Treaty (TIME, Jan. 22 et seq.). It was not yet an accomplished fact; the treaty still teetered in the balance of events. On Sept. 4, some 50 nations (he hoped) would meet in San Francisco to sign it; the U.S. Senate and the other governments would have to confirm it. "The treaty," Dulles has anxiously observed, "is in jeopardy every day of its life...
...angrily confronted the mayor, demanding satisfaction of his honor-or at least his visa. The mayor told him to relax. "Such things," said Little Napoleon, "so often happen in the party." Jean pulled out a pistol and shot him dead. Later he explained what had driven him to the deed: "I was crazy. I couldn't sleep. I conducted the Metro like a sleepwalker...
Farmer Cochel, who deeded his farm to the church in 1947, manages to make it show a token profit (last year, $2,500). His deed provides that he will manage Roanridge as long as he wants to. "Every other time any church tried to run a farm, it blew up on them because they didn't know how to do it," he says. "I didn't want any bishops telling me how to farm...