Word: mortall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least two Republican incumbents are in much worse shape: Albert Quie, whose loss in Minnesota's solid Republican south could be a mortal blow to the G.O.P., and Veteran H. Carl Andersen, a leading Benson critic, who has long won against inferior Democratic candidates but this year faces Minnesota's House Speaker A. I. Johnson, who has complete D.F.L. support...
Tunisia has accused Nasser of meddling in its internal affairs and harboring mortal enemies of Bourguiba. But no note on the diplomatic break was made public, and no reason was given immediately...
...rapidly is Protestantism spreading that the Vatican has paid it the compliment of being seriously concerned. Pope Pius lists "four mortal perils" that are threatening the Catholic Church in Latin America. Among them, "Protestant invasion" ranked high...
...other mortal perils: Communism, secularism and "a disquieting spiritism...
...decorate the 25 rooms of the hunting lodge, Rubens picked most of his themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including the famed story of the weaving match between Pallas Athena and Arachne. Bested in the contest, the goddess Athena was doubly angry because mortal Arachne dared to weave scenes of the scandalous loves of the gods (Rubens' sketch shows a scene from the Rape of Europa). Athena ripped the design to shreds, turned on Arachne, who was trying to hang herself in despair, and metamorphosed her into a spider (thus giving spiders their zoological classification: Arachnida...