Word: outerness
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...debate over Libya, Malik brought up an old Russian proposal for a package deal: if the Security Council admits Red satellites Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia, Russia will no longer veto such other Western-supported applicants as Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Nepal and Portugal...
...opinion there is an omission in Father Connell's suggested classes into which those outer-space dwellers who propel the flying saucers might fall. Why couldn't they be the departed Jews and Protestants, in as much as, according to the teaching in some parochial schools, only Roman Catholics go to heaven? Or does he include Jews and Protestants in Class II, with the luckless infants doomed not to see the literal face...
About five days later, the coarse outer layer on the boy's left arm became soft and crumbly, and fell off. The skin underneath was reddened, but soon became pink and soft. In ten days the arm was clear from shoulder to wrist...
...stood watch while Gavenda bloodied his fingers tearing down the last bricks. At 4 p.m. the head guard signaled that the day's work was over, and the guards descended from the fortress walls. Gavenda crawled out of the recessed gun port, got a firm hold on the outer wall and swung himself down to the ground. The others tumbled after him. The six men made a dash for a railroad embankment, ran under its cover to a bridge across the Vah River. Gavenda almost fell over a woman washing clothes in the river. She stared...
Modern Comforts. Other topics on the agenda: whether religious should use sleeping cars or sit-up coach seats for long rail trips, whether novices in religious houses should be allowed to look at the outer world on television. Before one of the sisters' discussion sessions, it was discovered that a priest was to address them on the subject of modern comforts and conveniences. Up rose a seven-member nuns' committee to protest. Said Mother Mary Gerald, O.P., "Why should any man tell us about our comforts and conveniences?" Four nuns were hastily scheduled to speak in the priest...