Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object he took from the salver; it was not sacred. He simply picked up the large yellow, celluloid comb (lacking three teeth) and combed the patriarchal hair and beard in full view of the congregation...
...large black object . . . crawl . . . over the foot of the bed, and swiftly spread itself up to [my daughter's] throat, where it swelled, in a moment, into a great palpitating mass...
...object of their feverish search was the April 14 edition of Newsweek magazine, which the 'Poon' editors had hoped to make different from any copy the public had ever seen before. No real issue of course, this was merely the Ibisters' way of reviving their old "Parodies" series, which has in the past included the New Yorker, the Alumni Bulletin, and Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Said Senator Robert Taft: "We can hardly longer reasonably object to the Russians continuing their domination in Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Rumania. The loans, therefore, accept the policy of dividing the world into zones of political influence. Perhaps," the Senator added, "there is no other course...
...Object of the conference will be to outline the broad functions of the U.S. Commission and the procedures by which organizations and individuals can assist in obtaining support of its program...