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Word: renders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devil's first choice certainly must be, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's." What could be more reasonable? The catch lies in dividing the "things." It develops that nearly everything that matters much is claimed by Caesar, and the leftovers for God are pretty slim. Increasingly Caesar, in the form of large business concerns, takes over everything from the up-and-coming executive, even to the kind of car he drives, the clothes his wife wears and his opinions on every subject except geometry. Caesar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO FRIENDS, NO ENEMIES, JUST INTERESTS | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...both cards for abstention. But a Deputy does not have to be present to vote, and even if he is, he customarily lets his party leader deposit his vote. By judiciously mixing "yeas," "nays" and "abstains," a party leader can calculate just what degree of approval to render a policy, how to rebuke a Premier with an insultingly small majority, how to bring him down without taking the blame. If the leader needs more time to assess the situation, he simply drops in duplicate ballots for several Deputies, which forces a recount. Before every important vote, the Assembly adjourns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRENCH ASSEMBLY | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...viewed with alarm "the aggressive course of the U.S. foreign policy" and its "open propaganda and preparations for a new war." He blustered against the Paris agreements, and warned Germany "they would render it impossible, for a long period, to re-establish Germany's unity." He talked of countermeasures: a new unified command of satellite armies to offset SHAPE. He waved Russia's H-bomb: "U.S. aggressive circles have miscalculated once again . . . The matter has progressed so far that in the production of the hydrogen weapon ... it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Change of Line | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Render Unto Caesar. At Camp Rucker, Ala., Bible Salesman Leon Willie, 26, was fined $150 for gambling with minors after two G.I.s complained that he had taken $165 from them in a dice game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...fuss was about (TIME, Jan. 3). For 15 hours five judges listened while the prosecutor argued that Djilas and Dedijer, by flouting party discipline and giving interviews critical of the party and its leaders to foreign newsmen, had helped "certain foreign circles...damage the reputation of our country...and render difficult her international position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Surprise Ending | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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