Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physicians published a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine estimating that only a small percentage of the nation's doctors would survive a nuclear war and that medical supplies and hospitals would be virtually non-existent. If this is so the seriously wounded will probably die, while the rest will have to fight disease in a radioactive environment that will tend to lower their resistance...
...birds, animals, and plants, as well as for people. After the battle, according to John A. McCone, an estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful supply of motor vehicles, gasoline, trained vehicle operators, food to sustain the workers, farmers to plan...
...Victorian Christianity, with their self-directed emphasis upon individual salvation, and their grim and hypocritical portrayal of man's sinfulness. Most clergymen today wince at the thought of having to lead their faithful in Rock of Ages ("Foul, I to the fountain fly/ Wash me, Saviour, or I die") or Mrs. C. F. Alexander's all too vivid hymn entitled The Circumcision...
Group Conversions. Kreinheder has a passionate interest in Christian unity. He is the U.S. secretary of the League for Evangelical-Catholic Reunion, founded by members of Die Sammlung (The Gathering), a German Lutheran group that prays and works for the union of their church with Rome. This ecumenicism keeps Kreinheder from joining the Roman Catholic Church, which many Lutherans think he might as well do. "Individual conversions are not going to be the answer to unity," he says. ''When the move is made by a group, then we will have true unity, and that is what...
...immigrant Jew lives in a shabby single room on Manhattan's East Side. He quarrels with all forms of life: pigeons, cats, dogs, landlord, goyim. He hates them all because they still have their life, while he is soon to die. He treats no one worse than his son Carl, who fled to the suburbs and keeps a house that is not strictly kosher. The old man knows how to make him feel guilty. "You think I keep a diary of all my aches and pains, so I can tell you about them every two months?" he grumbles when...