Word: earth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educated military career men. Most agree that their time of torture and isolation taught them much about self-reliance and the importance of thinking small. Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Joe Mobley, 36, a thin, balding man who greeted his friends on the first morning of the reunion wearing reverse-heel Earth Shoes and dungarees, still acutely remembers what seem like almost microscopic moments of prisoner austerity. "Your senses become keener," he explains. "You can feel the effect of an aspirin. You can smell a bar of Dial soap at 400 yards...
...audience of some 8,500 from his own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. Many of them were delegates representing the denomination's more than 13 million members at a meeting to plan an ambitious campaign, which is backed by Carter, to proclaim the Christian message to everyone on earth by the year 2000. The President spoke quietly to his "brothers and sisters in Christ" about the role of faith in politics. Said he: "The great outward journey of our nation is based on an inward journey, the peace that issues from an inner strength of awareness of the will...
Since the Fall it has been one rude truth after another. Copernicus elbowed us from celestial stage-center with his observation that the earth revolves around the sun. Darwin opened the closet of evolution to introduce family skeletons that further questioned our singular divinity. Under the damp side of civilized behavior, Freud found the perpetually rutting...
Among his more provocative propositions: that man created God in his own image; that a man cannot comprehend God's transcendent love unless he has fully experienced the carnal love of a woman; that God is a cosmic jokester, with man as his butt and the earth as his torture chamber; that nothingness is the bedrock meaning of existence...
...several of his letters went unanswered, he flew out to see the manufacturer, who told him: "We don't export -it's too much trouble." Unlike the aggressive, go-anywhere Yankee traders of old, modern American businessmen have long had at their doorstep the richest market on earth and felt far less pressure than their foreign counterparts to seek exports. But that could be changing...