Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recipient to vanish across the handiest frontier, while the Westerner waited 24 hours, then reported to his embassy or the local police that his passport had been "lost" or "stolen." Huivenaar promised his victims that temporary documents permitting them to go home would be is sued without question. But all too often the scenario would go awry...
...should have visited Florence instead of Rome," growled one Gaullist deputy, implying that his colleague was acting like an intriguing Medici. Pompidou, who made the announcement over drinks with newsmen at the French embassy, insisted that he had spoken only out of gallantry. A lady had asked the question, he said; had a man asked, he would have been more brusque. Returning to Paris, Pompon, as Frenchmen have nicknamed him, toned down his Roman remarks. "Thank heavens," he told newsmen, "General de Gaulle is thoroughly in the saddle...
...Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...
...acts. Cadaco has sold about 600,000 of the games. And then there is Bible Bowling, in which marbles are rolled down a miniature bowling alley into holes. Depending on what hole the marble lands in, a card 'is selected by the bowler, who must answer a biblical question to score points. Sample card: "For six pins on your first ball, who is Barabbas...
...away with any efforts to inflict pain or suffering on any Jewish person." In the current issue of Commentary, Earl Raab, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco, argues that the black-white confrontation in America raises anew "the Jewish question"?the place of Jews in a secular democratic society. "The Jewish question is alive again because the American political structure and its traditional coalitions are in naked transition," writes Raab. "The common democratic commitment trembles...