Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be as subject to attack for Teapot Dome as Adlai is held responsible for Harry's alleged foibles...
...demonstrate his powers, he deliberately invited technical difficulties, multiplying close harmonies of the flesh, pleated linen and polished silver, and tilting the teapot in the hand...
Small, chipper Bishop Gerald Francis Burrill, 49, was unimpressed by angry Dr. Higgins, doubted that the subject would even come up at this week's convention. "It's just a tempest in a teapot," he shrugged. "Or you might say it's an old chestnut that's been rolling around for years. Our church is a church of tension. We try to preserve within it the doctrines and discipline of the Catholic Church, but with a difference. This argument has been fought up and down the river ever since the Reformation . . . The majority of our people...
...chance" or "brink" or "art." Praising Dulles, Nixon said: "The test of a foreign policy is its ability to keep the peace without surrendering any territory or any principle. And that great fact about the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy will stand out long after the tempest in a teapot over the expression [brink of war] is forgotten...
...official report since the war, the National Gallery complained that inadequate maintenance is endangering some of the world's most marvelous paintings. Among them: Michelangelo's Entombment, Piero della Francesca's Nativity, Holbein's Ambassadors, Rubens' Château de Steen. In one room, the only humidity control is a teapot, kept boiling around the clock. As many as 60 paintings have been lined up at one time for the repair of cracking, flaking or rotting canvas. Said a gallery official sadly: "The damage goes into the millions...