Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political embodiment of Greek humanism was the city-state, which provided order instead of anarchy, freed the individual from the frenzied worship of nature gods, and destroyed the rigid cult of the family, including the blood feud. The major demerit was that the Hellenes soon "took to worshipping their city-states as gods, instead of treating them simply as public utilities." Inevitably, this produced the first Hellenic martyr, Socrates, who compelled Athens "to choose between respecting his conscience and taking his life...
...this point the administration, sensing the immanence of an awkward and totally absurd feud, established the special committee to straighten out the situation and to set up a formal delineation of undefined matters concerning radiation. The necessity for clarification is especially pressing due to a report by AEC scientists that radiation in the atmosphere has doubled following the latest Russian atomic tests, and that radioactive material from the latest type of atomic weapons returns to the atmosphere much sooner than the material from previous bombs...
...19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly announced her departure from Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet...
Last week, as Bishop Théas called on his diocese to boycott the "foreigners," the new basilica stood finally finished. Less splendid was the open feud among churchmen. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "Monsignor Théas has paid a heavy price for his basilica in every sense of the word...
Schlitz Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). On the Brink gives Mercedes McCambridge the chance to try a little brinksmanship with her own life as she plays the doting aunt horning in on a deadly family feud...