Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Hemisphere ever has to defend itself against an attack launched over the Pole, Western man must learn (as his enemy will presumably have learned) how to survive in Arctic weather, and still have energy left to fight. How to acquire that skill is the problem before the Joint U.S.Canadian Cold Weather Testing Station at Churchill...
...recent Quebec court case, Judge Oscar Boulanger spoke his outrage at French-speaking witnesses who used English words for the parts of a car. Example: "le steering knuckle-arm" for la tige du joint de direction. Along Quebec roads, French-speaking motorists ask for "gas" instead of essence...
...Louis, 38 top-ranking Episcopalians took their church's official leadership to task for obstructing church unity rather than promoting it. Target of the document was a "Statement of Faith & Order" recently prepared by the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. Their chief complaint: the commission's statement does nothing to clear up the church's ancient ambiguity on the subject of the "historic episcopate," Episcopalian equivalent of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Apostolic Succession (an unbroken line of bishops consecrated by bishops traced directly back to St. Peter...
...Joint instruction will get a reverse twist this summer...
...caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties...