Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic Governor Robert B. (for Baumle) Meyner, 48, since he married Adlai Stevenson's distant relative by marriage, Helen Stevenson, last January. But Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner for the state's rising budget ($342 million in 1958). To Jerseyites, who pay no sales...
...Athens crowds gathered all week long outside Makarios' hotel to stare and cheer. Old men on donkeyback, women on foot came from distant villages to offer him flowers and prayers. Makarios lunched with Greece's King Paul. Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who had not met him at the airport in deference to Turkey's protests, called on him in his suite. Among other visitors: his sister and the sister of EOKA Leader Dighenis, who live together in Athens. Watching the scenes of adulation, observers conceded that Archbishop Makarios right now could overturn the Karamanlis government itself...
Patience, then makes a great good time, and is a vastly endearing production. The Gilbert and Sullivan players have furthered their reputation for consistently clever and spirited performances of these sometimes so distant classics...
...knows where comets originate. One respected theory is that they are loose aggregations of matter distantly associated with the solar system. They may have been left over from the dust cloud that went to form the sun, or they may have originated in a Saturn-like ring that once surrounded the sun. Most of them are believed to stay far beyond the outermost planets, moving on orbits so distant that they are invisible. A few have been affected by some passing star and deflected into lopsided orbits that carry them periodically down toward the sun. These are the comets that...
...collective portrait of the banker, said Eaton, is that of a man who is "austere, respected, conservative, competent and distant. The public feels little emotional rapport with him." Said one of those interviewed: "The average banker to me is a stuffed shirt. He would like those people who came in with a lot of money. He wouldn't pay any mind to the average guy who came in without too much dough...