Word: doormats
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...wedding verses "bunkum and nonsense." At another lecture Krishnamurti said to the males in the audience: "Do you know what your relationship with your wife is? We all know this relationship-sex nagging, bullying, dominating, the superficial responses of marriage . . . If you are dominant and you make her a doormat, you say: I am happily married...
...into the dressing room. Judge Eric Weston (one of the few remaining Britons on India's bench) denied Mrs. Mehta's petition. He dryly observed: "I do not think there is any room for doubt that the teachings [of Krishnamurti] suggesting revolt of the wife from her doormat position must have had their effect upon her mind . . . This led to her refusal to carry on marital relations with her husband, which must have caused considerable resentment. Final rupture was the inevitable result of a situation which was largely of her own creation...
...surprise added up to a 9 to 0 shutout win for the varsity tennis team yesterday against Columbia in New York. Jack Barnaby's Crimson squad had feared the Lions would offer serious opposition, but they soon discovered Columbia was almost devoid of veterans and as such was the doormat of the Ivy League...
...took four months of bureaucratic gear-grinding for the King's instructions to bear fruit. Last week, an official buff-colored envelope flopped on to Alfred's doormat. Inside was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . . . was referred by the King to the Minister of Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful consideration and has decided that ... an exception to the general rule . . . may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears...
...Philadelphia Harvard Club put out the old doormat last weekend, and over 1000 members of the Associated Harvard Clubs shuffled across it to observe the annual meeting and hear a full cycle of speeches starting Friday morning and ending Saturday evening at the annual banquet...