Word: sacrosanctity
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...heat of the Commonwealth controversy, few Britons recall that its sacrosanct trade ties started as a marriage of convenience-and have lately proved increasingly inconvenient. Since the 1880s, British politicians have dreamed of the Empire as a competition-proof common market that would forever absorb British manufactured goods and supply cheap raw materials in exchange. But it never worked that way. In 1962, as Richard Cobden protested in the early 19th century, the Commonwealth is, in purely economic terms, "but a gorgeous and ponderous appendage to swell our ostensible grandeur without improving our balance of trade...
Such is his prowess that even the vociferous partisans of Flatbush, who gathered within the sacrosanct walls of the late lamented Ebbets Field, found naught but to praise and dubbed him "Stan...
...some $3 billion, 62% of their 1961 budget for defense. Dance halls and movie theaters (including many in the J. Arthur Rank chain, hard hit by TV) have been transformed into bigtime bingo parlors. "Fruit machines," as one-armed bandits are known in England, have blossomed even in its sacrosanct drinking clubs. Bookies, permitted to operate from betting offices for the first time since 1853, report that business is up from ten to 25%. But for well-heeled Englishmen, the law's most welcome provision is its restoration of chemin de fer* to the British scene...
...They were instructed to introduce "as few alterations as possible" into the text of the King James Version, limiting "as far as possible, the expression of such alterations to the language" of the early English bibles. Certain glaring mistranslations were tidied up, but the various obscure archaisms still remained sacrosanct...
...most sacrosanct of Latin American sacred cows is state control of production and processing of such fundamental resources as petroleum. Last week Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi,who is not bullied by sacred cows, took pen in hand and signed a $90 million deal whereby two U.S. companies and one British firm will build Argentina's first petrochemical plants to produce synthetic rubber and industrial chemicals. In many Latin lands, such action would have brought out the mobs to smash windows and shout "Yankee, no!" In Argentina, conditioned by three years of watching Frondizi leap from crisis...