Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Images. Many of the earliest Christians believed that the end of the world would come in their lifetimes or soon after. When Christianity's first millennium drew to an end, many believers thought that they were on the brink of the seventh day of Creation, and trembled in expectation of the Second Coming. German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists...
WEDNESDAY: Special, Trouble Comes to Town, Small-town Southern sheriff Lloyd Bridges adopts a Northern Mack youth, the son of a Korean War buddy who saved his life, in this made-for-television movie about a town on the brink of race war. Directed by Daniel Petric ("A Raisin In the Sun"), CH. 5. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...anything. The aristocratic husband, bearing the cross of cuckoldry on his corpulent frame, shoots him squarely through the head but no one ever dies. When the crusty, provincial detective scrapes dried blood from the bannister, he really isn't looking for a murder victim. With the mystery at the brink of solution--and this is the biggest bluff of all--it appears there was no crime. This path of deception and confusion makes an evening of humorous mystery, and any selfmade detective has a good chance to discover the truth three or four times before the script oveals...
...Year without a doubt was Senator George McGovern who lost the election but prodded Richard Nixon to the brink of peace...
...Kremlin has seemed increasingly anxious to prevent détente from penetrating Soviet borders. Since Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow last May, the screws have been clamped ever tighter on expressions of dissent in Russia. Now some Western observers think that the Soviets are poised on the brink of the most massive crackdown since Stalin's death...