Word: awakenings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops off to sleep only to awaken to the sight of a beautiful girl, nude but for a wide leather belt around her waist ("the belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic"). After his faithful native servant is scorched to death by a flamethrower Bond and the girl are ushered into the presence of the diabolical...
...nationwide test, to be given when children enter high school and again before they graduate-checking local scholarship with the national average-is favored by 59% of the principals. The reason most principals give: the test would help awaken parents in educational disaster areas, gain support for raising academic standards. Another question on standards showed wide division: "Some people say that colleges should raise their entrance requirements, making it harder for high school graduates to enter. Do you think colleges should do this...
...Unitarian minister, my gratitude to TIME, March 10, for "Unitarians, Come Out!" The article may serve to awaken some of our denominational leadership to the great tragedy which is taking place within Unitarianism at the present time. There still are many of us who do not consider ourselves above Christianity...
...village blacksmith. Discarding the useless line, he tied his hook to a thin steel wire and sat down on the rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped the wire around his leg so that the eel's first tug would awaken him. That evening he did not return home. Ivica's sons found him, floating dead, in shallow water near the reef. The steel line was looped tightly around his leg. On the other end of the line was the eel, a 10-ft.-long, 300-lb. giant - the biggest ever caught...
...told visiting U.S. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. "We have already won over you. Your cities and bases could be stricken from the face of the earth. Your overseas bases are yours, but they are surrounded by the peoples of those countries. You will see?one day they will awaken from their slumber and recognize the folly of depending on NATO and such alliances for their protection." But he ordered his diplomats to break off disarmament talks at the U.N. and rejected the new overtures made by the NATO leaders at the Paris meeting...