Word: bedfellows
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...professorial crowd managed to justify its concession to television as a sort of moral compensation" for the national ignorance. In the absence of anyone else, the professor rallied to the salvation of mankind and assumed the role of the Expert. If he found in Jack Benny an odd bedfellow, the academic could clearly see his responsibility to compensate...
Rambling through Europe after a meeting of the British Commonwealth's odd-bedfellow Prime Ministers, India's Premier Nehru spent three days visiting Ireland, where he got a revolutionary hero's welcome, plus an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Dublin and was feelingly cited for his sympathy and help in Eire's own "struggle for independence...
...beens and wouldbes of Rome's fleabag Hotel Imperatore, the Countess Sanziani exudes the imposing aura of a famed once-was. For La Sanziani. as Carmela soon learns, was once a legendary courtesan, mistress of a d'Annunzio-like poet, playmate of a Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...
...benefited the Communists. Though the party is outlawed and the Ibanez government is antiCommunist, the Reds have burrowed deep into the labor movement. Their biggest coup was the capture of Clotario Blest. White-haired Bachelor Blest, longtime head of the National Association of Government Employees, is a strange bedfellow for Communists. He is a Roman Catholic whose favorite reading is the Thomist philosophers. In 1952 the Communists invited Blest to Moscow along with other labor leaders. The fact that Holy Week services were allowed in some Moscow churches made a vivid impression on him. Since then, the Reds have...
...Strange Bedfellow. The whole procedure was strong, though necessary, medicine, and most Democrats had as little taste for it as most Republicans. The Democrats were tempted to give Dan Reed solid support, to vote down the Rules Committee's recommendation on the grounds of irregularity, and thus contribute to Martin's troubles. But over the weekend some northern Democrats began to realize that voters, not understanding congressional procedure, would remember only that Democrats had helped to kill a tax popular with the party's left wing. To make the point, Martin proudly showed off a wire...