Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President coldly starts to strangle a small boy who has recognized him. "Hundreds will be shot if I do not escape," he explains. "What is one life against so many?" Bewildered in the mazes of moral choice that inescapably invest a man who tries to do a good deed in a naughty world, the hero kills a comparatively innocent soldier in order to save the comparatively guilty President. As the film ends, he is wondering how he is going to live with his crime-a crime that turns out to have been unnecessary. Just across the border the President dies...
...Indian territory it occupies in Ladakh (see map). "No force in the world could oblige us to withdraw," said Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi. The effect of the Chinese announcement was thus to tell India that any final settlement must irrevocably deed the disputed Ladakh territory to China...
...major patrons. The great lords were losing their feudal powers to the state, and as if feeling the threat, they retreated into a world almost of make-believe. They made a cult of the ancient code of chivalry in which the most ignoble action could be described as a deed of honor. Etiquette was rigorous, and manners so sacred that a noble Alphonse and a lordly Gaston could spend hours politely protesting that the other should go first. Though convulsed with change, society tried to fix every person in his proper "estate" or "order," down to the "four estates...
...Colombo last week, a Buddhist monk and herbalist named Talduwe Somarama mounted a prison scaffold and was hanged. Somarama's crime: the 1959 assassination of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon W. R. D. Bandaranaike. In a confession he later retracted, Somarama said he committed the deed because the Prime Minister favored Western medical techniques over Oriental herb medicine. Prison officials reported that 24 hours before he was hanged, Somarama had himself baptized a Christian so that he could ask God for the forgiveness of sin that cannot be found in the Buddhist religion...
meeting: "It was done entre gallos y medianoche"-a Castilian expression for an evil deed committed between midnight and cock's crow...