Word: nisi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Anthony Nutting, 39, onetime (1954-56) British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who resigned protesting the British-French action at Suez; by Gillian Nutting, 40, who pleaded desertion; after 18 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in London...
...Chief of Jamaica (1943-51), who bolted to Italy in June with his wife's 45-year-old dressmaker; by blonde, wholesome Lady Huggins, who knew what hit her ("My husband is a victim of the 30-year itch"); after 29 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in Southampton, England...
...Immo edepol severae Musae tragoediae quibus tantum borribiles irae et mortes pallidae placent. Et non Venus benigna inter nos incedit sed illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura...
...cunuchis plerumque non cst cavenduml Nisi cunuchus non cst verus cunuchus sed ardens adulcscens, cui sunt tales vires ingenue quales illis custodibus severis Kerby-Molitori ct Leightono interdum molestac sint. Cum hic cunuchus falsus--immo vero hic Gactulus lco--per cuiusdam servi callidi insidias domum intrat quam suac deliciac Pamphila ct illa merctrix splendida Thais habitant, quac flagitia quac implications amatoriacl Pro Venere omnes militant non sinc gloria. Sed de argumento satis...
Beyond the Communist darkness, plain people everywhere showed their feelings plainly: surprise, relief, curiosity, apprehension. But in chancelleries, the dictates of conscience contested with the practices of diplomacy. Officially, a policy of de mortals nil nisi bonum (but not too much bonum) generally prevailed. Some responses...