Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometime pacifist who wrote some of France's finest war poetry, a good family man who grew into an aged satyr, a penny pincher who showered generosity on many. He was a shaker of culture and an object of curiosity and adulation rarely equaled. On his 79th birthday 600,000 Parisians paraded past his home. When he died, just 71 years ago this month, he was laid in state beneath the Arc de Triomphe, then escorted by 2,000,000 of his countrymen to his tomb in the Pantheon...
...pomp and circumstance worthy of his impressive titles, a bespectacled Nepalese named Mahendra was last week crowned King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor. With the towering Himalayas as a backdrop, and money no object, it was the subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise...
...preparing to describe how her husband had forced her to commit perverse acts, and public knowledge of the case would "embarrass not only the defendant but the four women on the jury." Added the judge: "As far as I'm concerned, the failure of the district attorney to object waived any objection on the part of the People...
Norm Shepard has come in for little criticism as baseball coach, but if there is one element in his strategy that Soldiers Field fans object to, it is his reliance on the bunt. And both the strength and weakness of this element in the Crimson attack were demonstrated in Saturday's game...
...spite of all a teacher might do, these students set the tone of the class. Yet "they cannot be invited to leave school: the school will not permit it, the community would not approve, and the parents would strenuously object." As a result, educators have tended to turn their courses into entertainments in the vain effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop...