Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radar-foiling aircraft, although aspects of the program had been quietly incorporated into the design of the operational SR-71 reconnaissance plane and the cruise missile. Then someone began leaking news on Stealth. Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter was about to commit himself to the development of a bomber "virtually invisible to enemy radar" and that it might help him counter Republican charges that he had neglected U.S. defenses. Actually, Carter has not gone that...
According to the article "The Decline of Editing" [Sept. 1], "The fight against the misuse of 'hopefully' (for 'I hope') is just about lost." In your review of the Peking opera [Aug. 25], the wife of Mao Tse-tung, Jiang Qing, is mentioned in this way: "Thankfully, Jiang herself has now fallen out of favor." Does this mean that Jiang is thankful that she fell out of favor, or does it mean that the fight against the misuse of "thankfully" is just about lost...
...meeting in the Cardinal's apartments. The invitation was widely interpreted as an attempt by Wyszynski to mend fences with the workers, many of whom felt that he had failed to support them adequately during the strikes. The workers were especially disappointed by the Cardinal's Aug. 26 sermon calling for "calm and responsibility." Excerpts were broadcast on state television, giving the impression that Wyszynski opposed the continuation of the strikes. The Polish episcopate later protested that it had not authorized the broadcast and that the government had edited it to serve its purposes, but many workers remained...
...presumed dead), destroyed or damaged 220,000 acres of timberland and created a monumental dredging job on three nearby rivers. In the four months since then, the mountain has been restive but not cataclysmic. There have been four major eruptions and numerous smaller ones, the most recent on Aug. 15. But Mount St. Helens lets no one rest, especially scientists...
...dissent spread, Eirinaios returned home for a vacation. In an incredible episode on Aug. 29, a weeping band of former parishioners interrupted him at prayer in a little chapel near Chania, kissed him, then literally hauled the protesting prelate into a car for the trip to Kisamos. Alerted by church bells, thousands swarmed to welcome him back. The Ecumenical Patriarchate supposed at first that Eirinaios himself had staged the kidnaping. Not so, insisted the captive bishop. He told TIME last week: "Only after I recovered from the initial shock and saw the sufferings of these people did my soul yield...