Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Romans to visit Geneva was Julius Caesar, who 2,000 years ago destroyed a bridge there to keep the Helvetians from crossing the Rhone River. Last week another historic Roman personage was in Geneva, not to destroy bridges but to build them. As part of the seventh, briefest, and quite possibly busiest trip abroad of his pontificate, Pope Paul VI paid an unprecedented "fraternal visit" to the headquarters of the World Council of Churches in the city of John Calvin and Rousseau...
...times, the new simplicity of funerals seems to verge on an almost mechanical austerity, in which the spiritual has little or no place. Not surprisingly, some undertakers are disturbed about the rising frequency of what they disdainfully dub the "run-in" or "disposal" funeral: the briefest memorial service, no embalming, just a quick transfer of the body to the crematorium. Obviously, the problem for the Christian is to strike a balance in which death can be faced as the mystery it is, with neither false confidence nor excessive grief. Ideally, says the Rev. Dr. Albert J. Penner, president...
...Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored of the American way of life." Arthur Krock expresses a visceral fear that "the tenure of the United States as the first power in the world may be one of the briefest in history...
...parts inventories in anticipation of such a strike. To guard against a protracted Kelvinator shutdown, the company also began laying plans to turn to outside suppliers for the affected parts. With high hopes for continued recovery, A.M.C. obviously has every intention of avoiding, if possible, even the briefest auto-production stoppage...
...Factory's main achievement has been "melding the dinner jackets and the blue jeans. You dig? No one is embarrassed; nobody cares." Brightening the ambiance no end is the fact that some of Hollywood's prettiest girls (who need not be members) show up in the briefest dresses, and dance the wildest steps. Said one new visitor: "The only thing missing are the beds...