Word: whims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, no one has ever dared challenge the Deputies of France in their one-sided warfare against Premiers. At their whim, Premiers came, and Premiers fell, but Deputies went on forever-or at least until the end of their appointed terms. No one could have been more surprised than the Deputies themselves when Premier Edgar Faure, of all people, that most artful of political dodgers, suddenly turned on them. Muttered old Robert Schuman in amazement: "The rabbits are shooting at the hunters...
...everything the Opies have dug up is nursery gold. But, on the whole, they successfully recreate the nursery-rhyme universe in which the laws of logic, nature and rhyming are suspended. Cruelty can sound carelessly gay, love may be a mere whim, and justice a joke. And yet violence never seems to hurt, love in the child's world is really everywhere, and justice has its own triumphs, as when kings are reduced to thumb-size and beasts are great with wisdom. These verses have, in the words of Poet Walter de la Mare, "their own private and complete...
...ridiculous for them to build helterskelter and not cooperate with the city at all," Mrs. Wainwright said. As one of the University's "decisions based on whim" she named the Shady Hill housing development, which the Administration proposed last spring as an apartment house to be located near the Divinity School for Faculty families...
...H.A.A. office by 5:00 p.m. today in brown envelopes. There will be a "very special effort to make sure all Houses have enough envelopes," Frank O. Lunden, ticket manager, said yesterday. The money for the extra tickets may be paid by check or by cash, depending on the whim of the individual student...
...Edgar Faure offered them the opposite-a policy of the political carom shot, the showdown avoided, the adroit maneuver, the delicate adjustment. Last week the Deputies of France suddenly discovered that they were no longer amused by Edgar's "cleverness" either. Since in France the Assembly's whim is sovereign, this petulance brought France's government to its knees...