Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...state itself had the right to take Dr. Sander's life-by hanging-if it so willed. Indicted on a charge of murder, he rose last week in superior court to make his plea. "What say you?" the clerk asked him. He said clearly: "Not guilty." Free on $25,000 bail, barred temporarily from practicing, wan and tired, he walked out of court to await his trial...
Chambers had been an atheist, an Episcopalian, a Quaker: "inability to make stable attachments." He had touched Julian Wadleigh for $20 and Hiss for small sums which he had never repaid: "panhandling...
...official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani" (I am at war with the engine). After nine years of invasion, occupation and civil war, polemen (to make war) in colloquial Greek has replaced ergazer (to work...
...sacred Hindu wedding verses "bunkum and nonsense." At another lecture Krishnamurti said to the males in the audience: "Do you know what your relationship with your wife is? We all know this relationship-sex nagging, bullying, dominating, the superficial responses of marriage . . . If you are dominant and you make her a doormat, you say: I am happily married...
What really worries Dr. Seliger is the in-between group of heavy social drinkers. Increasing in numbers, he says, they are a danger for three reasons: 1) they get themselves and their friends into jams; 2) they are bad accident risks; and 3) they make a training ground for chronic alcoholics. "Many business leaders, professional men and high-powered executives [are] in this medical bracket...