Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little more than a public-relations exercise, the Thanom government now can claim a mandate of sorts for its actions. But at the same time, it will have to cope with an opposition that can be expected to ask stinging and probing questions. Says Seni: "The Thais are no longer taking things lying down-and I am happy about that...
...seem ill-advised if not maniacal, could they be considered dispassionately in advance. Most May-December marriages thus considered look even worse. Yet there is no evidence that they turn out any worse than most unions-and possibly they work a lot better. Older men, for example, are no longer obsessed by their careers, and are much less likely to become obsessed with other young women. They are more indulgent; and besides, with them a woman is much less conscious of her own aging. Above all, the old and young partners are generally apt to consider their marriages more thoroughly...
...York Rangers' Rod Gilbert, for example, explains that from his right-wing position "with a straight stick and a fast play the shot will slide off my stick like a golfer's slice. But with the curved stick I can hold the puck a second longer, have better control when I fake the goalie, and then whip it into the corner with the left-hand spin and know it won't trail off." Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield...
What disturbs the critics is a growing conviction that too many provisions in the agreement between Italy and the Vatican are no longer relevant to the nation's needs. As Salvatore Valitutti, a Liberal Party official, put it: "The concordat of 1929 was established between a state that was not free and a church not yet reconciled to the values of freedom." Many of the concordat's provisions run counter to the intent of Italy's postwar constitution, which states that "all religious confessions are equally free before the law." But the constitution also clearly ratifies...
Feinting and fighting, the two engage in their own mixed-up, microcosmic version of the war. The Japanese occupies the beach, the American the jungle, in a skirmish that seems to last longer than the Battle of Guadalcanal. Bereft of conventional weapons, the pair have at each other with sticks, fire, traps and maledictions. To no avail. Predictably, the hunters learn that they cannot survive without their quarries. Without speaking a word of each other's language, the odd couple eventually construct a raft and go off in search of rescuers. Stranded again on a different island, they find...