Word: reade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Great West Road from London Airport, on 417 through Hounslow, Chiswick, Hammersmith and South Kensington, the dove-grey, open-top Rolls-Royce rolled into the heart of the great grey city. A small Stars and Stripes fluttered from the left fender; the license plate read "U.S.A. 1." From hundreds of thousands of Londoners thronging outside rows of semidetached brick houses, leaning out of town mansions, tumbling out of pubs, standing six deep in Hyde Park, the shouts went up: "Glad to see you, Ike," "Welcome," "Good for you, Ike." As the Rolls-Royce rolled into Grosvenor Square, from...
...room at Los Angeles' cramped Olympic Auditorium, Moore (5 ft. 3 in., 126 Ibs.) gulped a tablespoonful of honey half an hour before the fight ("It puts the sweetness back into you"), performed perfunctory stoops and bends, and thumbed the Bible ("I just open the Good Book and read whatever I come to"). Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round...
...Paris last week, pundits and plain citizens alike chattered with rage at a paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...
Orthodoxy also tends to look askance at Protestant disparity and elasticity in matters of faith and order. One paper, read by Professor Chrysostom Konstanti-nidis of Turkey's Halki Theological School, was based on the assumption that Eastern church traditions are closer to original Christianity than Western traditions. Yet few Protestants took offense. Said Lutheran Professor Hendrikus Berghof of The Netherlands: "Our Orthodox friends speak very frankly. They say, 'You are not the church, and we are the church,' and we applaud. We need a real conversation...
Before Sailing. In Bonn, West Germany, new fire instruction signs in a nine-story parliament building read: "It is forbidden to jump out of top-floor windows without authorization of professional fire brigade...