Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestige of the Senate is at stake.'' Thirty-four Republicans ended up voting for cloture. Only two-Texas' John Tower and Arizona's Barry Goldwater-voted against. And Goldwater, waiting in the Republican cloakroom, did not appear to naysay until Dirksen sent him word that his vote would make no difference...
...think the Administration is the keeper of the public interest," declared Meany. "It represents Government interest. When the Government buys something itself, it has the right to make clear its stake in the negotiations." Meany leaned across the table to point a thick finger at his goblet. "It can say, 'We've only got so much money for glasses, and we hope you'll keep the price level where we can buy glasses.' But it shouldn't go asserting the Government's interest in cases where the Government is not directly involved...
...soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named, Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition...
...Seventh Seal can serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity; like Bergman's knight one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, andthe smoke disappearing into the vacant intersteller spaces beyond...
Iserloh's arguments have roused German Protestant historians and set off a stir of headlines in the German press. Sighed one confused Rhineland layman: "Next thing they'll be claiming that Jan Hus wasn't burned at the stake...