Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theological Schizophrenia. Editor Morrison has no illusions that anti-Catholicism will butter any Protestant parsnips. Protestantism can never win America, he knows, unless it boldly stands up to "proclaim its own gospel." It will never do this, he thinks, as long as it is hag-ridden by the twin evils of old-fashioned conservatism and liberalism...
...When he's in plain clothes I never hear what he's doing. Usually, he talks to me at the movies, and we aren't interrupted by the children. But we never have time for movies any more. And, then, we sleep in twin beds so he won't wake me up when he comes...
...Economic and Social Council stole few headlines from its noisy twin, the Security Council. But Ecosoc, which had proliferated into eleven subsidiary agencies (to consider everything from health to hunger, from a free press to free trade), was having its own hot debates, its own clashes between the big powers...
...twin pincers of the Southern organizing drives by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. clamped on a major target. Moving through the rolling green hills of East Tennessee, both closed in hungrily on the 59,000-acre Oak Ridge atomic-bomb project...
...functioning as Lever Brothers & Unilever Ltd. (with a British-controlled twin in The Netherlands, Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V.), this private empire is a prime bulwark of Britain's reconstruction economy. As it waxes or wanes, so will much of the economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...