Word: whey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...package demanding full equality with the country's Roman Catholics-had never sounded crucial, especially since even Diem's worst enemies could not point to any real anti-Buddhist discrimination or persecution. But when government troops stupidly killed nine Buddhists in a demonstration in Hué (pronounced whey) four months ago, the Buddhists made the clearly political demand that the government accept "responsibility" for the incident. Since then, the Buddhists have developed into a serious opposition movement...
...Dinh Thuc, 66, the eldest, is Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hue (pronounced Whey), controls large amounts of property in the name of the church, and has placed several favorites in Diem's Cabinet. Diem repeatedly tried to get Thuc transferred to the vacant See of Saigon, but the Vatican, which is distressed by the extent to which Diem's repressive measures have tarnished the image of Catholicism in South Viet Nam, vetoed the suggestion. It has also ignored all hints that Archbishop Thuc might become a cardinal. Thuc is the only one of the brothers whom Mme. Nhu does...
...expect them to take care of the security of Massachusetts," O'Neill demanded, "whey they can't even watch the security of their own funds...
...real awakening began half a year later, when he won a scholarship to Holywell County School. There he met Miss Sarah Grace Cooke, 33, the original of Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green, and an inspired teacher who discerned the sharp and hungry intelligence in the small, whey-faced boy with dilapidated shoes...
...silly-sickening newsreel of Reichs-kanzler Hitler at his first Cabinet meeting, bowing obsequiously to Von Papen, making cheesy smiles and cute little wriggles of politeness, playing Alphonse to Göring's Gaston over who sits in what chair and, in general, looking like a whey-faced, flabby postal clerk ill at ease in the company of his betters...