Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into her bedroom, gagged and trussed her with nylon stockings, methodically ransacked the place, and escaped into the night with $13,200 worth of brooches, rings and necklaces. It took her half an hour to free herself and phone the police. Luckily, the thieves failed to find their apparent object: Mia's nine-carat, $84,000 diamond engagement ring, presented to her in happier days by Frank Sinatra, was in Los Angeles at the time...
...times have changed again in Russia. After four years of study, the Supreme Soviet is about to enact a new Family, Code, the object of daily dissection in Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that...
...qualifications are not idle, said the court. "A police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts" that led him to act. "Inarticulate hunches" will not do. And hidden weapons must be the only object of the frisk. "The issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger." The court added, however, that if a properly motivated frisk turns up other incriminating evidence, that evidence may be used in court...
...modern challenge to infant baptism stems from several different arguments. A growing number of Roman Catholic thinkers now look on original sin as the universal weakness of man rather than a damning individual fault-which cuts the ground out completely from the need for infant baptism. Still others object to the "magical" implications of the baptism ceremony-namely, that a spiritual cleansing is achieved by the physical act of pouring a few drops of water on the infant's head. Many clerics argue that baptism has in effect been made a mockery by unchurched parents who want their child...
Ibis had his baptism by baptism at 11 a.m. Having graciously consented to serve as the object of the treasure hunt, Ibis settled into the chlorine-scented depths of the Adams pool sustaining life through a primitive papyrus-reed snorkel, a memento of Ibis's original Nile home. From time to time, Ibis gave Treasure Hunt officials the V sign made famous by Winston Churchill in World...