Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next time.' It is to the shame of the Christian church that we have been so slow to face the demands of the Gospel in the racial revolution. What kind of Gospel are we preaching when a church sends missionaries to convert Africans, but suggests to the Afro-American that he go to church with his own kind?" Ford also attacked evangelical apathy (if not active opposition) toward social action in the U.S. "Christians have a stake in preserving historic truth," he acknowledged, "but since sin infects every man and institution, we need a holy discontent with the status...
Already Alaska beckons on the north, and pointing to her wealth of natural resources asks the nation on what new terms the new age will deal with her. -The Frontier in American History, 1920, Frederick Jackson Turner...
...Americans have long paid little heed to their frontier of the north, idealizing instead the memory of a Western frontier that is forever gone. Now Alaska increasingly presents what Historian Turner called the "stubborn American environment" with its "imperious summons to accept its conditions." The 49th state's environment is as raw and untouched as the Great Plains and Rockies were 150 years ago, offering anew a spaciousness unknown to urban Americans and an awesome treasure of untapped wealth...
Judged by the sum of their special living allowances, bonuses and "hardship" pay, American businessmen working abroad are considerably better off than their stay-at-home counterparts. At least that is the conclusion of the National Industrial Conference Board in a report issued after a survey of 104 senior executives of U.S. corporations with international operations...
...report prompted one West German newspaper to comment that Americans abroad are paid "ducal salaries." It has stirred a somewhat different reaction from U.S. executives in Europe. "I read that and gulped hard," says Ed ward Roach, European marketing director for Honeywell Inc., who is transferring this month from Frankfurt to Brussels. "Only if you're willing to live like a native can you do pretty well." The trouble, according to some overseas executives, is that living like a native often means squeezing a family into a cramped apartment and doing without some amenities that Americans take for granted...