Word: unthinkable
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...course I didn't like it. Who wants to face death without God? Who wants to tell kids that the universe is indifferent to them? But the alternative--faith--was unavailable to me. Once the mind thinks some thoughts, it cannot unthink them...
Tragically for the men involved, such kidnapings carry their own catch-22: the more governments give in to save the victims, the more frequent they become. Ceding to blackmail demands, Nixon insisted last week, was unthink able. The threat, he said harshly but realistically, was "a risk that an ambassador has to take...
Half-Mile Walk. The unprecedented act of penitence, undertaken by representatives of every corner of Roman Catholicism, implied a corporate acknowledgment of the church's sins ? an admission of humility for "the spotless bride of Christ" that would have been unthink able a decade ago. Yet, instead of sackcloth and ashes, the prel ates wore vestments of red and purple, and the venerable fathers for whom the half-mile walk would have been the slightest physical ordeal were discreetly excused from the ceremony. The place of honor in the procession, as always, was given to the Pope; but this...
...season his salary was $9,000, almost as big as Klem's. Voting by players for a favorite umpire was a mockery until Stark won by large majorities in 1934 and 1935. Players like him because he is fast, industrious, accurate. In a profession which usually makes popularity unthink able, he achieved another unprecedented triumph last summer when New York fans presented him with an automobile as a token of esteem. That an automobile, admiration from players and spectators, a blue serge suit and $9,000 a year are still for Dolly Stark inadequate compensations for being an umpire...
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