Word: wanning
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...creating what? Historian Arnold Toynbee finds that "a real beginning of fusion" is under way, raising the prospect of the first genuinely European era since the early 16th century of Erasmus and St. Thomas More, when Latin-speaking scholars could still wan der freely over a continent that had not yet been divided by the Reformation, the first stirrings of nationalism and embryonic dreams of empire. On the eve of Prime Minister Edward Heath's talks with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn last week, the normally restrained London Times not only praised Brandt's "moral authority...
States of Ireland is essentially a plea - despite all that has happened - for the beginnings of reconciliation of the two communities, to be initiated by native moderates and encouraged by Dub lin and Westminster. Perhaps a wan hope. Britain has yet to acknowledge any debt to the people of Ireland for the past. But if it moved industry to the areas of highest unemployment and insisted that Northern Catholics get a fair share of the jobs, the atmosphere might improve dramatically. Reconciliation, at any rate, is probably Ire land's best hope of obtaining equality for the oppressed Catholics...
MATHER HOUSE coach John Volpe reported that his team's passing and defense were outstanding in Mather's 6-0 nipping of Lowell. He also said that Mather had a number of sophomores without experience, but that they played well in the wan. He predicted that his own team would probably finish fourth...
...show of splendid in dignation. It meant, thundered the China News, nothing less than a return to a state of war between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. In recognizing the government on mainland China, the argument went, Japan had to break diplomatic ties with Tai wan and abrogate their 1952 peace trea ty, leaving relations between the two countries right back where they were before that year - in a state...
...load of opium down Thai country roads, bullying his way past police checkpoints into Cambodia. He arrived in Saigon in June for a scheduled meeting with the Phantom, but was arrested. When the Phantom arrived at Tan Son Nhut airport, Berger fingered him. He turned out to be one Wan Pen Phen, a middle-aged Chinese with both Taiwanese and Thai papers. Police say Phen routed 4,500 Ibs. of opium monthly through the area. In July, the cops arrested Luu Phuc Ngu, a prominent Saigon hotel owner, his son Luu Se Hon, and Phen...