Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scene of the conflict: the sole checkpoint allotted by the East Germans for Western military entry through the Communist wall. (West Berliners have their own crossing points...
...depravity with vigor but no consistency, registering at different times belligerence, shy embarrassment, prosperous self-satisfaction, artiness, guilt, and a well-practiced sinister leer. Last week it was artiness; he would like nothing better than to be put out of business, he said-in fact Olympia's sole aim has been to batter down the bastions of censorship and make the world safe for experimental literature. Supporting this seven-eighths hypocrisy, Girodias points loftily to a one-eighth truth: both Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man are works of high merit...
...culture and Jewish thought, then as well as for the embodiment of people-hood, most Jews look to Israel, which has at the present time, and in the foreseeable future will be, the sole source of Jewish creativity...
...sole Progressive voice in the Assembly belongs to Economist Helen Suzman, 43, the wife of a Johannesburg heart specialist and mother of two grown daughters. A onetime United Party M.P. from suburban Johannesburg's sheerest silk stocking constituency. Politician Suzman broke away from the U.P. in 1959, will be the only member of the Assembly not committed to apartheid. "The difficulties of being alone in Parliament will be enormous," she says. "I won't even be able to move amendments as I shall have no seconder, but I shall do my best." She adds, perhaps too hopefully...
...Green Bay Packers were riding high. They had won four straight games, shattered the Baltimore Colts (45-7) and Cleveland Browns (49-17), needed only to beat the San Francisco Forty-Niners' flashy "shotgun" offense to gain sole possession of first place in the National Football League's Western Division. Then the blow fell: Private Paul Vernon Hornung was ordered to active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve, effective 30 October...