Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacationing in London last week with his wife and their 18-month-old son, Baker got word that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had declared him persona non grata on grounds that he "systematically violated the norms of behavior for diplomatic representatives." Translation: John Baker was persona too grata to the young Russians, who had been raised on a stiff diet of hate-America propaganda...
...runs against Pittsburgh's powerful Democratic Mayor David Lawrence for Governor, and G.O.P. Representative Hugh Scott Jr. runs against incumbent Democratic Governor George Leader for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Ed Martin. For those who thought Stassen was through with politics, Childe Harold had a word of warning: "When God ends my life," said he. "that's when my career will...
...last the Paris government began to speak openly of "insurrection against the state." But even in this desperate hour, Pflimlin was careful to emphasize that he applied the word "rebel" only to the Corsicans and not to their infinitely more powerful sponsors in Algiers. The clear implication: Pflimlin was convinced that, no matter how great the provocation, he could not try to bring Algiers to heel by force. And since there was no apparent hope of bringing Algiers to heel any other way, the likelihood was that in the end the Fourth Republic would be obliged to capitulate...
Manhattan critics drubbed Broken Date lustily. Its theme, said the New York Times's John Martin, "seems to be that in France sexe is a four-letter word." It seemed as good an explanation as the one offered by Date's creators at its premiere. Explained Composer Magne, 28: "It recalls my youth." Said Novelist Sagan, 22: "It recalls my youth...
...Last week Pastor Wipprecht defended himself before the school board, was reinstated on condition that he teach religion without mentioning sex. "If I am not to be allowed to teach the Seventh Commandment," he said, "I shall have to quit. And how I shall do that without using the word sex, I don't know -but I'll worry about that later...