Word: fishered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 61, father of six, conceded that large families had "problems" nowadays-but he was still in favor of them. "I find it very difficult to attach the word 'family' to a family of one. It is not easy to attach it to a family of two; but I begin to feel happier when it is a family of three...
...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...
...John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, was named a cardinal in May 1535, after Henry VIII had imprisoned him. Henry prohibited delivery of the red hat to England, declaring that instead he would send Fisher's head to Rome for the hat. Shortly thereafter, Fisher was beheaded...
...Fisher said that this group had considered wrecking the NSA, packing the Student Council, infiltrating into the Liberal Union, smearing candidates as communists, and distributing birth control pamphlets under the name of prominent NSA officers...
Bingham also refuted Fisher's charges when he said: "I wish to deny categorically membership in the League." McWhorter backed him up by pointing out that Bingham had never been a League member nor had he over supported their policies...