Word: tinction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
EDWARD & MRS. SIMPSON (syndicated stations, Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 23.) Kings of England have been deposed, murdered and executed. One, poor George III, was even confined for mad ness. But until 1936 none had voluntarily renounced his throne. That dubious dis tinction was left to Edward VIII, who reigned for exactly 325 days and then gave up his crown for "the woman I love," a Baltimore divorcee by the name of Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...MILITARY AID TO TURKEY: President Ford's veto [of a bill cutting off arms aid for the Turks] renders the dis tinction even more clearly, because it was still another Administration decision favoring Turkey ... I tell you frankly that if this situation continues, there is danger that even the most pro-American Greeks will confuse the distinction between the American people and the American Administration...
...make the keynote speech, the committee picked Idaho's ever smiling Senator Frank Church.* who is 35 but looks mid-twentyish. Church attracted national attention at 16. when he won an American Legion oratorical contest. In 1956 he orated himself into the Senate, where his most obvious dis tinction is to be that body's youngest member. Legend has it that an old lady visiting the Capitol once said to him: "I understand that you page boys are often mistaken for Senator Church...
Counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries do not reconcile themselves to their ex tinction; on the contrary, it is precisely because of their impending doom that they put up resistance and carry out sabotage more desperately." The terrorist with the twisted mouth knows better than most that there will never be peace-must never be peace-in Communist China...
...that inebriated, early-morning hour when a celebration teeters between ex tinction and new adventure, carousing officers of Guatemala's ragged Liberation Army rolled merrily through the doors of La Locha, a much-favored Guatemala City bordello. Once inside, they discovered that half a dozen young military cadets had engaged the attentions of La Locha's choicest residents. Waving pistols and machine guns, the Liberators dragged the unhappy cadets into the corridors, forced them to strip and dance an incongruous cancan. When the cadets were finally freed, they dashed off to the Eseuela Politecnica (Guatemala's West...