Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a mystery how quintuplets could be concealed so long. Perhaps their parents' irregular relationship kept them socially isolated. Possibly Argentine newsmen are not alert. But it is no mystery to Papa Diligenti. He planned it that way, even registering the births in different offices or not at all. Midwife Delfino kept her pledge. The household was mum as clams. Forceful Papa Diligenti had made his wishes clear: "Do I want a bunch of maniacs running through my house, bulbs flashing in my babies' faces? I want my children to live normal lives. . . . I don't want...
Cursing the Vanderbilts, Astors, Goulds and their ilk, as well as the hillbilly Confederate Longstreets who claimed relationship, Grandpa was a tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...
...Future." The U.S. moved toward broadened recognition (see p. 77). Britain accomplished it. Stiff, stern Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, beamingly announced to the House of Commons "a happy augury . . . for our future . . . relationship with France." Whitehall and the Algiers Liberation [Administrative] Committee had initialed: 1) a financial agreement, pegging the rate of exchange, for the duration, at 200 francs to the pound; 2) a mutual-aid agreement, pledging "all the military assistance that each is able to supply for joint prosecution...
...Council's educational campaign to update congregations on the relationship of organized religion to the conduct of the State had already begun. Its first step: a booklet, Why Is Political Action a Christian Concern?, which will be sent to all parsons. It is designed as a textbook for preaching on such "Christian issues" as racial relations, labor problems, peace treaties, management, economic questions...
...relationship between the solar system in which we dwell and the rest of our universe is similar to that of a wheel placed in a sphere, stated Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, in his recent Sigma Xi talk...