Word: wands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unhappy at Mendes' remarks, the other leading candidates unhappily had little else to offer. Growled Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle, whom Mendes, as Premier, had appointed: "No magic wand can settle the problem at one stroke." Lacking a magic wand, politicians groped for a magic word. To lameduck Premier Edgar Faure, that word was integration, which lies somewhere between assimilation, now abandoned as an impractical dream, and federation, which implies wholesale remodeling of the French Union. To Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay, federalism was the magic word: it would bring "solidarity within diversity...
...approve if the law was no longer content to accept a single act of adultery as a sufficient ground." Other British prelates have gone on record in the same vein lately. Unfaithfulness, said the Archbishop of York, "should never be treated as the one unforgivable sin," and Bishop J.W.C. Wand of London said in a sermon: "It is a pernicious idea that if one partner has been unfaithful, then the home must be destroyed...
Methodist leaders chimed in agreement, but the British press seemed to think otherwise. The idea was "startling" to the Daily Mail, which editorialized on its front page: "As Dr. Wand reminds us, forgiveness is a Christian virtue. But so is chastity ... We are told, in the Seventh Commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' It does not say, 'Thou shall not commit adultery more than once.' Or more than twice . . . Is a single act of infidelity to be applied only to one sudden fall from grace, or also to an infatuation that may go on for weeks...
...deny that part of Winchell's story when Committee Chairman Watkins offered them the opportunity. Last week, after his appearance on the witness stand, Winchell in his column offered another explanation of how he got the document. Wrote he: "In the corridor, some Good Fairy waved his wand and there it was, in my li'l ole pocket...
...deadly fact that almost any modern writer of whodunits constructs stories far more ingeniously than Doyle did and sticks much closer to reality at the same time. On the contrary, it is the fairy-tale quality of his world that has kept Holmes alive: he wields his magic wand in a never-never land where all cops are laughable simpletons, all locks susceptible to the key of logic...