Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may not be many; fewer than 100 of the seminary's 650 prestrike students are expected to drift back. Nearly 400 of the rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...
...This is a time quite analogous to the 1920s," Reischauer said. "There was a failure of financial cooperation then, and a drift toward protectionism ensued that led to adverse domestic politics...
...have spent the evening leaning against the wall suddenly come to life and lunge toward their nubile prey. The ratio of men to women seems to be nearly 50-50 at this point, ensuring-at least in theory-that no one will leave alone. But as couples drift off into the darkness, the games have only begun. Gripes Jeff Erikson, a TV salesman from Minneapolis: "Some chicks come here to be hustled, others to fall in love. It would help if they wore different signs...
Late last month, Tanaka appointed Takeo Fukuda, his old rival for the Liberal Democratic leadership, to head the powerful finance ministry. Fukuda, an apostle of fiscal orthodoxy, has so far done little to check the feeling of governmental drift. Although his appointment was widely praised by business leaders, it has failed to quell intraparty squabbling. "All they seem to care about is how it will affect the Upper House elections in July," said one Western diplomat last week...
...more than 20 miles around in 1908, and in the geological formation known as the Witwatersrand gold field in South Africa. The possibility of a hit also fascinated Jules Verne. In his 1877 story Hector Servadac, the earth is smashed to bits by a comet, and the protagonists drift off into space on one of the fragments. Statistically, the likelihood of a comet colliding with the earth is extremely remote; scientists calculate that such a collision will occur no more than once every 200 million years...