Word: kinship
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...object in view," he said-"the good of the United States." From that premise he had examined the whole problem of joining in the defense of Europe. The U.S., Eisenhower had concluded, had to join in; there was no alternative. Its own good was bound by blood and kinship and practical exigencies to the good of Europe...
Berliners are proud of Frederick's bronze statue on Unter den Linden, which, since the start of World War II, had been encased in a brick shell to protect it against air raids. Recently, not fully realizing their kinship to the king, the Communists suggested that the statue be melted down for scrap. An outcry of protest from Berliners taught the Communist bosses that they could put Frederick to better...
...basic traditions of more than one hundred millions of its people. A clerical-religious approach to the question of public education which may be suitable to a fine little green and very Catholic country of three million people, to which many of our greatest clerics are tied by kinship, is not always appropriate in the United States...
...present-day adherents preach that only by a spiritual union of the New World's Spanish-speaking countries with Roman Catholic Mother Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
...Night" in Memorial Hall will be staged. This activity will be "something like a Freshman smoker," Class officials say, with free beer and entertainment by the Class. But any informal gathering of seniors on Class Day, especially with the accompaniment of a beverage, will undoubtedly have more of a kinship to was sails of the past than to a Freshman smoker. It remains to be seen, of course, whether or not this projected "Class Night" will revive all of the ancient Class Day rougeries. Yet there has always been an indefinable carnival atmosphere around Class Day which leads...