Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he will respond to Plato or Thucydides. he may find the Bible, yanked out of its cultural setting, an alien book. "The great Biblical themes of redemption and judgment in history, of freedom and grace and sin . . . seem strangely vague, far away, and unrelated to the ebb and flow of life and history as he understands it." However much the world "may have retained the institutions and outward forms of its Judaeo-Christian cultural stem, it has well-nigh completely lost the capacity to respond sympathetically and understandingly to that heritage...
SHIPPING BUSINESS is sinking close to lowest ebb since World War II, and transocean charter rates are down about 50% from peak of Suez crisis. Should recession continue, it will run older, smaller ships off main sea routes. Some ships are already being laid up, but most operators hope to ride out temporary storm, are still placing orders for new ships...
...paralytic as compared with nonparalytic cases. At this time last year, half of all cases were listed as paralytic, one-third as nonparalytic. This year fewer than one-third are paralytic, about half nonparalytic (the rest are unspecified). The overall decline in polio might reflect in part a natural ebb of the disease, but the relative drop in paralytic cases is almost certainly attributable to vaccination...
...Ohio River Valley, crashed lustily through western Pennsylvania and New York and jaded out in Canada. But in Cameron the bodies were still being stacked in the ice house, with about 350 dead in the area and uncounted others floating out to sea in Audrey's sullen ebb...
...Ebb Tide. In Naugatuck, Conn., the police, unsnarling a long line of honking motorists, found Samuel Perry, 32, at the head of it, halted at a stop sign, fast asleep...