Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underline his intentions, Peron last week made a direct attack on Radical Leader Ricardo Balbin. Balbin, who had made a speech in which he called Peron a dictator, was accused of having violated the Desacato law. Peron sent word to Congress that he should be deprived of his parliamentary immunity so that he could be tried by a federal judge...
Elijah was a man lunching in a Manhattan sidestreet cafeteria. Day after day, Rowe found him eating there at noon, and for three weeks he returned to study each line and plane of the luncher's face. Artist and subject never exchanged a word. With his wife helping on the voluminous research needed for costumes and backgrounds, Painter Rowe worked steadily on his 32 illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words...
Salter insists on deliberate use of the word / as much as possible (his book is full of it). Mock modesty is all nonsense: "Express agreement when you are praised." Finally, "Don't plan. Live for the next minute . . . and tomorrow will take care of itself...
...rights & wrongs of artificial insemination were hotly debated last week by delegates to the Congress of Catholic Doctors in Rome. Up to that time, there had been no authoritative word on the subject from the Vatican...
...Pope also had a word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...