Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from active Catholic Filipinos. The church's official newspaper, the Sentinel published a statement by the entire Phil ippine hierarchy protesting the attacks or Vagnozzi. The Sentinel editorialized: "The local Bourbons, who could not directly attack the progressive labor movement of the Catholic Church, have found a scape goat in the person of the nuncio...
...captious German movie critic once called her "die Oelige Ziege" (oily goat) because of the slippery way she slid around mountain peaks in her movies. But to Dictator Adolf Hitler, sinuous suntanned Leni Riefenstahl, the daughter of a Berlin plumber, seemed the perfect female embodiment of Aryan strength through joy. Under Adolf's patronage, Actress-Producer Leni became the reigning queen of German moviedom. Given the job of filming the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Leni produced a picture as artful as it was artistic. It took top critical honors at Italy's International Film Festival...
...both the White House and the Justice Department. The President, said Krock, moved away from the argument. Later, McGrath and Short kicked it around some more; the presidential aide thought that both Morris and McGrath ought to go. The Attorney General protested that this would make him a "goat...
Daniel Defoe conjured his sketch of a man at the edge of the unknown out of little but an island, a parrot, a goat, a musket and a Man Friday. The "science-fiction" writer, busy working the unknown nowadays, requires planets, galaxies, universes and all the latest portents of physics. He sets out, as Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet...
...strain is beginning to tell on the negotiators. Crabbed Admiral Joy: "Some people get my goat. They do not want any casualties, but they want an armistice quickly. And they want an armistice without any concessions to the enemy." This week, the U.N. no longer seemed a confident command acceding to the petitions of a battered enemy. Instead, it seemed the side which desperately wants the truce because it does not know what else...