Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's 60th President stepped out onto the balcony of the austere National Palace, the sun burst through the overcast, warming the sea of upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
...travel agent reappears with irreverent celerity. He draws the widow's hand toward him across the kitchen table, suddenly bends to kiss it, just as suddenly discovers the hand withdrawn and his lips pressed tenderly to a table mat. The next frame, however, finds them bouncing around on her bed, and for the next 80 minutes they hardly ever leave it-except to hurry over and bounce around on his bed. Sometimes they bounce all over the floor. Sometimes they bounce blindfolded. Once they land somehow in a large wooden chest . . . and discreetly lower...
...black & white glare blink in the Inky air force night as the Helikopter rose straight up in the telephoto frame carying President Johnson toward the newsphoto White House...
...Biblical injunction "Increase and multiply," while ignoring an equally important Scriptural imperative: "They shall be two in one flesh." Suenens proposed that the Council commission responsible for Schema 13 ("The Church in the Modern World") should work with a recently appointed papal team of birth-control experts to frame a doctrine on marriage that would take into account new medical discoveries. "We have learned many things since Aristotle," he said. "I urge you, brothers, let us avoid a new Galileo case-one is certainly enough in the history of the church." Even more explicit was Maximos IV Saigh, the Melchite...
...forced Chambers' thought processes into a rigid either-or frame that, once accepted, he could never escape-and it led naturally to a trust in Marxism. He was incapable of dealing with ideas as an intellectual game. "For me," he confessed, "an idea was the starting point of an act." He entered college in the early '20s as a sobersided conservative who thought Calvin Coolidge was the greatest Republican since Lincoln, and he left college convinced that the walls of civilization had cracked and were at the toppling point. "I felt that the world was too old," Chambers...