Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...non-playing captain, Ben tried to explain: "We aren't going to eat all those steaks ourselves . . . We want to do some entertaining and give your British golfers some." Nobody swallowed the explanation...
...Vancouver Island, have struggled to establish a "Spiritual Community of Christ." It was started by Michael ("The Archangel") Verigin, who decided that other "Douks" were losing sight of original Doukhobor tenets and becoming worldly and materialistic. Unlike other British Columbia Doukhobors, the new community stressed the old precepts of non-violence and communal sharing of all property, including husbands & wives. Its ruling elders decreed that until the colony was economically self-sufficient, no children should be born to any member...
...affairs . . ." On the other hand he answered critics of the State Department's prompt recognition of military regimes in Peru and Venezuela. Recognition, he said, "need not be taken to imply approval" either of the regimes or their policies. The U.S. stands firmly for democracy and for non-intervention in its neighbors' business...
...longer has time for exhaustive research into the folkways of urban Jewish life ("Fortunately, Molly never has to be too accurate"). Over the years, the Goldbergs' fan letters (several thousand a month) have maintained a steady 50-50 average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...
...Under the contract, the foreman of the composing room, who does the hiring, "shall be a union member"-a virtual guarantee that no non-union printers will be hired...