Word: veil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many innocents? Can it be legitimate to pander to morbid curiosity with details and descriptions that had better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw a merciful veil, as an occasion for descriptions and reconstructions that are nothing more or less than handbooks for crime and incentives to vice...
...beauty crisply framed in a black veil, Monaco's Princess Grace, accompanied by Prince Rainier III, made her second Vatican visit since the royal wedding. The couple were received in a 35-minute' state audience by jovial Pope John XXIII, who praised them as good
...three new Moslem women Deputies in the French Assembly. She was unaware of the shooting as she rose in the Assembly in Paris that evening, but her personal tragedy made her remarks all the more eloquent of the change in Algeria: "A year ago I still wore the veil. It is true that thousands of us joined the maquis, and others helped them. But it was because there had been a series of faked elections, because the Moslems lacked everything: schools, hospitals, maternity centers. It was Papa's Algeria, with its parade of corruptions. I am one of those...
Such moments can be glorious, and Bonnard's art was to seize and fix them for all time. His Piazza del Popolo has the quality of a good dream about to vanish. The Terrace shimmers, billowing like a veil before the onrush of huge forces. And finally Early Spring, which seems so gentle at first, is heaving, budding, bursting, beckoning, filled with wet splendors and bright pangs of delight...
...outside of these spots of light, there is darkness in the cabin. If he moves his hand away from this shaft of light, it becomes invisible in the darkness. There is a sharp demarcation between light and darkness in space. Peering down through the earth's milky cloud veil, he will recognize continents and oceans, even make out objects one-sixth of a mile long or wide [e.g., the Pentagon...