Word: displayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display was an instant hit. Following a friendly welcoming speech in Ukrainian by the mayor, nearly 10,000 luxury-hungry Kharkovites a day carefully examined the exhibit in a barnlike gym in a city park. Though the items on display ranged from handsaws to hammers (but no sickles), favorite attractions included such house hold gimmicks, enthralling to the average Soviet citizen, as magnetic paint guns, electric mixers and carving knives and power mowers...
After a month in Kharkov, the U.S. exhibit, which is being transported in a special train provided by the Kremlin, will pack up its tool sets and head to the Lower Don city of Rostov and thence to Erevan, capital of Soviet Armenia. Inaugurating the display in Kharkov, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy D. Kohler noted that "at a time when political relations between our governments are not as good as they might be," such exhibits "help create a climate of understanding and good will between our two peoples" that "cannot but facilitate the search for solutions to political problems...
...become great painters are one of a kind. To blunt the pain of reality, he slips a whisky bottle into his desk and nips at it. (Alcoholism climbs a steep 50% in the 40-60 group over ages 30-39.) His medicine cabinet begins to look like a pharmaceutical display, and he retreats into hypochondria. Indeed, the sense of being straitjacketed by fate may contribute sizably to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary attacks that increasingly fell middle-agers...
Flouted Convention. North Viet Nam is known to hold prisoner 34 American pilots; as many as 200 more, officially listed as missing, may also be in Hanoi's hands. In putting them on public display, Hanoi has already violated the 1949 Geneva Convention (which it signed in 1957) guaranteeing prisoners of war protection against "insults and public curiosity." By trying them, the enemy would flout another convention provision, prohibiting reprisals against prisoners. Hanoi's answer is that the Geneva Convention does not apply be cause the U.S. is fighting an undeclared "aggressive war" - even though Article 2 holds...
...declare the marriage null and void. Still another approach is taken by three Dutch theologians, Fathers B. Peters, T. Beemer and C. van der Poel, writing in a recent issue of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review. They suggest that even if second marriages cannot be regularized, Catholics who otherwise display evidence of contrition and strong faith might be admitted to the sacraments...