Word: letterings
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This time the disputed word was "inhabitants." The Egyptians wanted it omitted from a joint letter on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, to make it clear that autonomy for the two regions applied to the land and not just to its Palestinian inhabitants. The Israelis, who claim a biblical right to settle in what they call Judea and Samaria (ancient names for the West Bank), maintained that autonomy applies to the people, but not to the land they live on. Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed...
...nearby shopping centers for the benefit of a local politician and the glory of the Democratic Party. Terre, 26, the most voluble Roche, shipped off a couple of these campaign ditties to the White House for L.B.J. to use in his battle against Barry Goldwater; she also wrote a letter to the Pope, requesting instructions for achieving sainthood. Neither the President nor the Pontiff replied...
...streets. Contaminated water adds to the filth and contributes to a death rate of more than 50% among children less than four years of age. Before Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico in January, hundreds of comunidad members from Netzahualcoyotl and elsewhere in Mexico signed a letter to the Pontiff protesting such conditions throughout Mexico...
...with the Senators and said "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?" Or how about the time Don "Perfect Game" Larsen totalled his car during spring training and Casey Stengel, when asked what Larsen was doing out at five in the morning, replied, "He went out to mail a letter." Or the time in 1977 when the Yanks almost traded Ron Guidry to the White Sox for once-and-future mediocrity Bucky Dent. Or the moron reporter who asked Maris whether he'd rather break Ruth's record...
...last thing I would like to do simply not because I can vouch for it, not because I necessarily agree with it, because it is indeed a criticism of our policy, just to lay one more strand of complexity before you. I would like to quote from a letter that has just recently come from a man called Howard Shomer, who was formerly a dean of the Divinity School at Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis...