Word: sters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany. The Bishop of Mün-ster, Dr. Michael Keller, last month told Catholic workers that as Catholics they should consider themselves prohibited from voting Socialist. "It is a question of conscience, not one of political judgment," he said. Though Adenauer's Christian Democratic leaders privately welcomed the effect the bishop's pronouncement would have on rural and women voters, they were careful not to endorse the bishop's views publicly: they do not want to alienate Protestant voters in the fall's national elections...
...Hotel last week, some 14,500 people milled through a maze of cages, inspecting hundreds of fluffy little animals with faces like rabbits and tails like anemic squirrels. The animals were chinchillas; the occasion was the Eastern show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, a sort of Westmin ster Kennel Club for rodents and the trade association for one of the strangest businesses in the world...
Author d'Eaubonne affects to have translated her novel from the 16th Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...