Word: sunder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credibility that he is not interested in being President. More important, Nixon has gained widespread acquiescence to the idea of his candidacy. Party leaders, many of them indebted to Nixon for his herculean campaign labors, have come to view him as an acceptable candidate who at least would not sunder the party as Barry Goldwater did three years ago-even though some doubt that he could...
...shocked eastern Turkey last week, killing more than 100 people and injuring about 200. The quake centered in sparsely settled Tunceli and Erzincan provinces, 80 miles west of the Varto area, scene of a violent quake that killed 2,477 people last August. It was the second earthquake to sunder Turkey within five days; on July 22 about 100 people were killed and 300 injured in a series of shocks that struck 50 towns near Adapazari. Like previous Turkish quakes (see map), the latest disasters were located along the Anatolian Fault, a particularly lethal segment of the earthquake belts that...
...France cannot possibly accept this British behavior." But the shock waves have spread far beyond the Common Market. Britain, which only four months ago had such faith in Europe that it was ready to sunder its ties with the Commonwealth and with the European Free Trade Association, had to swallow its pride in Lisbon last week and make a desperate effort even to keep EFTA together at its first top-level meeting since February. The reason is that Britain's government has accepted the fact that it will probably not enter Europe during De Gaulle's lifetime...
...they gathered in a chandeliered room at Marlborough House to review Britain's bid for membership in the European Common Market. One after another, Britain's Commonwealth partners declared that, by joining Europe, Britain will gravely strain their economic ties to the mother country and may finally sunder the enduring links of sentiment and mutual self-interest that bind together one-quarter of the world's people...
Most marriages are ratified at a glowing religious ceremony, complete with flowers, white bridal gown, and organ chords from Lohengrin; most divorces are carried out in the dry, drab ritual of a civil court.But unlike Catholics and Protestants, Orthodox Jews have their own formal religious ceremony to sunder a marriage.Performing this seldom seen rite is the job of Manhattan's Beth Din (meaning court of justice), which last week completed its first full year of operation as the nation's most unusual divorce tribunal...