Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the most unequivocal pledge of British willingness to cooperate in "building Europe" ever made by a Briton in office. Eagerly, the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (every Western European nation save Spain and Finland) agreed to hammer out concrete plans for the Free Trade Area by next July. As "coordinator," they selected an Englishman-Peter Thorneycroft...
Monkeyshining Paradox. Emily, by impersonating the bride, thoughtfully intervenes to save Fatigay from marriage to the heartless Amy. ("Marriage between cousins is perfectly legal," says the clergyman when the imposture is discovered.) As Mr. and Mrs. Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...
...with a deep sense of relief that we learned of President Jordan's crusade to save the spiritual and physical lives of his Radcliffe cyclists. We must congratulate President Jordan on his recent statements urging his flying phantoms to be more considerate of the more pedestrian Cambridge residents...
...constructed for the Ring nearly a decade ago. A complete restaging, estimates Manager Bing, would cost a prohibitive $300,000. Though he refuses to go to Bayreuth because of its Nazi associations, Bing admires Bayreuth's modernistic, bare-stage productions, but does not think that they would save the Met any money: "There is nothing so expensive as an empty stage...
...Baptiste decides he would rather be wrong than self-righteous. He dabbles in sensuality ("A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers"). But this leads to remorse, especially when one girl whom he desires jumps into the river and he does nothing to save her life. Diabolical and cowardly in his own eyes, Jean-Baptiste becomes publicly penitent. But, "You see, it is not enough to accuse yourself in order to clear yourself...