Word: tweedledums
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...members of the cathedral's Great Chapter, led by Dean Walter Matthews. With appropriate portentousness, the dean questioned the assemblage: Should the election be "by acclamation, by scrutiny or by compromise"? It was decided that it should be "by scrutiny," i.e., secret ballot. And that was odd, as Tweedledum might say, because the Bishop of Peterborough, Robert W. Stopford, had already been chosen by the Queen to be Bishop of London. If the assembled prelates in St. Paul's dared vote against him, they would be subject to imprisonment, loss of civil rights and forfeiture of possessions, under...
...pills are Enovid, trade name of Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. for norethynodrel, and Norlutin, trade name of Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. for norethindrone (also called norethisterone).* These two chemicals, both extracted from the root of the barbasco (Mexican yam), are as alike as tweedledum and tweedledee. They are almost but not quite the same chemically as a natural female hormone that controls much of the menstrual cycle and helps to prevent ovulation-release of an egg from the ovary to the Fallopian tube, where a sperm can fertilize...
Esteemed Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, whose editorialists had played the election as "Tweedledum v. Tweedledee," did not even wait until all the returns were in to jump on the winning side. "Esteemed Mr. Kennedy, allow me to congratulate you," he cabled. "We hope that while you are at this post the relations between our countries would again follow the line along which they were developing in Franklin Roosevelt's time...
...Episcopal bishop once said. 'The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing on the other side for the authority of the Bible. The other denominations should be united, for the difference between them is that between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Seldom have U.S. Catholics and Baptists, particularly Southern Baptists, been ranged so clearly against each other as on the 1960 issue of a Catholic President...
...Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Soviet journalism-Izvestia (Information), the official daily of the government, and Pravda (Truth), the official daily of the Communist Party-are so packed with pap and propaganda that a few editors have discreetly hinted recently that the two dailies are incredible bores (TIME, June 1). Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...