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...Cartoonist Searle's horror, St. Trinian's has also become a synonym. He first realized this on the day he read a newspaper account of how three girls in Scotland actually did try to burn down a school. "When he read that," says his wife, "he went absolutely white. I kept praying -please, please, don't let them mention St. Trinian's!" But, of course, the newspapers...
...first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio comedians, who found that Kinsey's name had become an acceptable synonym for sex. One spinster snapped back at Kinsey that his elaborate study only confirmed what she had known all along-that "the male population is a herd of prancing, leering goats...
...church," the Cardinal had said, "recognizes the necessity with which rulers in some Catholic countries may be faced of granting-because of grave reasons-a degree of tolerance to the other cults. But tolerance is not a synonym for freedom of propaganda which foments religious discord and alters the secure and unanimous possession of truth and of religious practice in countries such as Italy, Spain and others...
Deir Yassin became a synonym among Arabs for Jewish brutality. Last week, in a Tel Aviv court, its bloody ghost rose again to plague the new Jewish state. Four Irgunists wounded in the massacre had demanded war veterans' pensions; the Israeli Defense Ministry had rejected their requests, ruling that their wounds had not been suffered in "organized action against Arab bands or invaders." The Tel Aviv court decided otherwise, held that the Deir Yassin attack (but not the massacre) was, in fact, an organized action, and commanded the reluctant Ben-Gurion government to pay the pensions. The news rated...
...female flowers of Indian hemp, is the Eastern version of marijuana. It was once the favorite stimulant of the Assassins (more properly Hashish-ins), a secret society of Shiite fanatics founded in the 11th century, whose drastic political actions led to the gradual adoption of their name as a synonym for killer...