Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the United Nations Special Committee on Hungary demanded assurances that the Hungarian patriots would be tried "under the highest humanitarian standards." Hungary's Chief Public Prosecutor Geza Szenasi gave Hungary's reply. Said he: "After martial law was repealed, some people expected that there would be a lessening of rigor. These expectations are without real foundation. The slogan, 'Let us make peace among us,' is a siren song. Such lukewarmness favors the enemy. Tolerance and understanding will be shown only to those who were misled by our enemies...
Always Smiling. Maria's inwardness and philosophical passion, the special glory of her art, is not merely a personal characteristic; it is the peculiar tradition of the German theater, to which she was apprenticed as soon as she could talk. Her father, Hermann Ferdinand Schell, was a Swiss playwright, moderately well known in Vienna, where he lived and worked, and where Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was born on Jan. 15, 1926. Her mother, a Viennese actress, daughter of a prominent neurologist and granddaughter of Vienna's chief of police, ran an experimental theater-along with a family...
Pastor Bronstein's services follow a conventional Protestant order, with special emphasis on the connections between the Old Testament and the New. Jewish holidays are celebrated with Christian interpretations. Example: the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah-to remind God of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac and. for Isaac's sake, the forgiveness of sins-contains for Jewish Christians the additional idea that Jesus died to atone for the sins of the world...
Standing before an embroidered Star of David and a seven-branched menorah (candlestick). David Bronstein faced his congregation and began: "This is Hanukah week, as we all know. And we all know that Hanukah, the Hebrew feast of lights, has a special meaning for us." The meaning: that Jesus Christ is the Light of the World...
...fainted and had to be withdrawn forcibly." At his country seat, Lord Rokeby built a bath "rendered tepid by the rays of the sun only," sat in it, reciting, with his long beard below the water line. In his declining years, he rarely left his bath, only relented on special occasions, e.g.: 1) "in order to receive Prince William of Gloucester at dinner," 2) to vote "in the general election of 1796" (Tory William Pitt the Younger was re-elected...