Word: deeding
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...darkened Manhattan courtroom and watched a TV re-enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
...then, 75,000 American servicemen already were present in South Viet Nam or pledged to go. The President promised 50,000 more by the end of this year, and the promise was soon outstripped by the deed. The 50,000 were on the scene by mid-September-and they just kept coming. Today the total is 145,000, and it will pass 200,000 by New Year's Day. Target by next summer...
Neither. The deed of sale is a ritual that the rabbis carry out every seventh year on behalf of Orthodox Jewish farmers who intend to observe Shemittah, the sabbatical "year of release" that began last week on Rosh Hashanah. During the year, according to the Law, all land owned by Jews in Palestine must lie fallow.* That way lies bankruptcy; so Jews have resorted to the legal maneuver of giving full title to their property to a non-Jew, who is not bound by the Halakah. This enables the Jews to work the land with a free conscience...
Poles Apart. Several similar resolutions have been introduced in the past three years, but they got nowhere largely because they were considered superfluous. The U.S. has long been pursuing, in word and deed, just such a policy. John Kennedy emphatically stated after the Bay of Pigs fiasco that he would not let the doctrine of nonintervention in the affairs of other hemisphere nations excuse inaction in the face of Communist aggression. Lyndon Johnson restated the policy during the Dominican crisis: "We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists...
...villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried in his singular way to love as Jesus loved, who oddly but honestly lived Goethe's song: The deed is everything, The glory naught...