Word: jars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held up a Russian-made burp gun supplied to North Korean attackers, and said that Russia's complaints reminded him of a jar falsely labeled peaches. "Sir," he told the Soviet delegate, "I am in a position to let the world see what is inside-applesauce...
...desperation, clergymen are the only Americans who customarily affect the title "doctor" after receiving an honorary degree. Admits Paul F. Bobb (D.D., hon.), associate pastor of Albuquerque's First Presbyterian Church: "I prefer 'mister' but let people use 'doctor' because it doesn't jar me as much as 'reverend...
...Spiegel case will not be resolved for many months, but so far Adenauer has behaved like an angry child caught with his hand in the cooky-jar. It is disturbing to see the leaders of a constitutional Western democracy revert to police methods to suppress criticism. Hopefully the German people will keep their government on the path of democracy which it has followed since...
...what made him that way. A succession of sometimes awkward flashbacks shows a dismal flat in a dismal slum, a father dying of some unspeakable capitalist contagion, a mother playing around with her "fancy man," a burglary of no more importance than a raid on the cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance to win his freedom by winning a big race for the greater glory of the Guv'nor, the lad leads the way right...
...jar is of a kind used for burials by Hittites, whose mighty empire flourished in the interior of Asia Minor, several hundred miles east of Sardis. George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, believes that this burial takes the history of Sardis back to the fourteenth or thirteenth century...