Word: sunder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pool peddler is happy until he chances upon Muscle Beach, a Pacific sand pile on which barbell brontosauri lovingly cultivate their abs (abdominal beef), glutes (backsides) and pects (chest muscles). There he spies the girl of his dreams-but alas, she loves a weight lifter. Can the underpected salesman sunder this pair? Sure he can, if he will only assert his baritoned intelligence against the rival falsetto. A falsetto, of course, is-in the definition of Poet-Punster Mark Van Doren-a guy with a false set o' values...
...choice of the spiritually minded, 823 to 720, was tall Dana McLean Greeley, 49, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church. Said President-elect Greeley: "I have never wished to sunder Unitarianism from Protestantism or Christianity, but I am eager to have it serve as a bridge between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and I am as ready for it to cultivate close relationships wherever opportunity affords with other great faiths, or lesser faiths, as with Christianity...
...left and to right, EDC's enemies thundered. Former President Vincent Auriol, a respected voice, cried that EDC "would sunder France from the French Union." Charles de Gaulle, who dislikes both EDC and Mendès with equal intensity, announced that "a surge comes from the depths that will protect France's independence." But as the week wore on, the answering fire grew louder. "If France fails to ratify EDC," editorialized the conservative Figaro, "she will find herself on the road to Prague. All else is sophistry, self-deceit and imposture...