Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the Church of England, whose canons against marriage after divorce form the sternest deterrent, was split on the matter. A newspaper poll of 100 Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...
...usual, the Assembly's decision was soggy with reservations. Ex-Premier Georges Bidault growled: "I voted for the government with death in my soul." One Gaullist complained: "I voted 'for' but I've just told Edgar that I deposited my ballot with a pair of fire tongs." The Socialists, who had given Faure his majority by backing his Moroccan policy, voted solidly against him on Algeria, on the ground that he was not moving toward reforms fast enough. So did three-fourths of the Gaullists, who thought Faure was going too far, and the Communists...
...Atomic Energy Commission for just such jobs. It can shoot a proton so fast that it carries 6.2 Bev. (billion electron volts) of energy. Physicists had figured that when a proton of this power hits a neutron, it will create a new proton and an antiproton. In such "pair formation," about two Bev. of energy is turned into matter. This is the reverse of the action in atomic bombs, where matter turns into energy...
City Farmer. Kaisen is a rare type-a big-city mayor who lives on and works his own farm. He has run Bremen since a summer's day in 1945, when a U.S. colonel came up to him as he tramped behind a plow-pulling pair of oxen. Would he care to be Bürgermeister of Bremen, the colonel asked. "No," Kaisen snorted through his mustache, "the Nazis destroyed this well-ordered state. They are the ones who should have to rebuild it." The colonel returned with some prominent Bürger. They persuaded Kaisen to accept...
...Louis' International Shoe Co., biggest U.S. shoemaker (1954 sales: $246.8 million), will boost wholesale prices as much as 5% because of rising labor and material costs, consumer demand for more varied styles. Other big manufacturers will soon follow suit, increasing retail prices as much as $1 per pair...