Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial writer of the Chicago Tribune spotted that ad under "Personal"' notices in the Tribune's classified ad section last week and seized upon it as the text for a bright little lecture...
West Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...
...most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein ("a graduate of the University of Vienna"). Although both authors lack professional psychiatric qualifications, their couchside manner is soothing as a deep trance, their text chockablock with neat quotes from Greek Philosopher ("Know Thyself") Thales, Robert ("To see oursels as ithers see us") Burns, Matthew ("Resolve to be thyself") Arnold. Readers answer yes or no to a string of loaded questions including: "Are you an illegitimate child?", "Are your phobias strong ones?", "Are you afraid...
...suite overlooking the Rhine in the Black Forest resort of Bühlerhöhe, a teletype machine clattered out the text of one of the Soviet Union's most cunning diplomatic plays. Leathery old Konrad Adenauer, vainly trying to rest from his labors as Chancellor of West Germany, watched the words forming, and frowned. Impatiently, der Alte picked up the telephone and snapped out a string of orders to his Foreign Office. "I want this thing killed right away," he said. "Kill it. Kill...
Article 35. Long delayed and often despaired of during almost nine years of negotiations and Soviet stalling, the final text of the treaty was hammered out in nine days' bargaining between the ambassadors to Vienna of the Big Four occupying powers. The ambassadors' conference, conducted in strictest secrecy, was probably the most cordial and fruitful session that Western negotiators have had with the Communists since World...