Word: nez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Violence & Faith. To affable, middle-aged Protestant Bishop Ruesga the incident was just an incident in the continuous, often violent conflict between Mexico's 20,000,000 Catholics and 180,000 Protestants. To the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Luis María Martínez, the tragedy at Santiago Yeche deserved Christian condemnation. Said he: "The Catholic faith is defended and extended through prayer, instruction and good example. . . . The Christian spirit is the spirit of charity, and charity is sweet and prudent...
...Chilean named Jorge Berroeta set out to swim the English Channel. He gulped some of his secret-formula soup, a recipe he hides from his trainer, Georges Michel, who set the Channel record in 1926. Then he plunged into the icy water at Cap Gris Nez, bound for Dover...
...bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince-nez...
...pediatricians assembled in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel for a three-day regional conference, there was nothing new in Dr. Bass's statement that expectant mothers who catch German measles in the first few weeks of pregnancy often give birth to defective children. What rattled their pince-nez were his recommendations that: 1) if the disease occurs in the first three months of pregnancy, abortion should be considered; 2) every effort should be made to expose young girls to rubella, to set up probable immunity...
...unlikely that his predecessors' fate was closing in on Beria.* The thin man with the bourgeois pince-nez was still alternate on the all-powerful Politburo, a vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, a marshal of the Soviet Union. Last fortnight he was nominated for re-election to the Supreme Soviet on a special list of handicappers' choices which also includes Candidates Stalin and Molotov. A native of Georgia like his boss, whom he once lionized in an apple-polishing history, Beria joined the C.H.E.K.A...