Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gulfwins, it appears, disbanded three years ago when the number of contests decreased. Contests, as opposed to sweepstakes, she is quick to explain, require skill-finishing a limerick, supplying the correct answers, coining a phrase. For some years now they have been losing ground to sweepstakes, a degenerate form in which the judging agency simply draws the winning entry from a bag of mail. True contesters, like Mrs. Haley, look down on sweepstakes. "There are no skill contests left. It's driving me nuts," she says. Most of what Mrs. Haley wins she sells at half price...
...David. "I don't call you often," he told conservative Republican Richard Lugar, "but I need your help desperately." Lugar nonetheless declined to support the bill. The President also sent a three-page letter to every Senator. But the missives brought snickers from some because they were obviously form letters-except for scribbled personal messages from Carter on each -and White House aides had lost a line at the bottom of the second page, making some of the text incomprehensible...
...mosques of Qum are not simply places of learning and prayer. They have also become centers for political action. Says one dissident lawyer: "We have not been allowed to form political parties. We have no newspapers of our own. But the religious leaders have a built-in communications system. They easily reach the masses through their weekly sermons in the mosques and their network of mullahs throughout the nation. That is why so many nonreligious elements cloak their opposition in the mantle of religion...
...Washington, when U.S. policymakers look at the same map, they do not see a Kremlin blueprint taking form, but they are nonetheless deeply concerned. They can imagine a "Finlandized" or neutralized Turkey, a Sovietized Afghanistan, a Balkanized Pakistan and an Iran in some still unpredictable state of disarray. Politically tenuous and strategically crucial, this band of non-Arab Islamic countries stretches from the Bosporus in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east?nearly 3,000 miles of buffer between Russia and the warm waters of the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It is potentially...
...first black man they saw. In Parliament, a backbencher called for martial law and general mobilization, and blustered that Africa was about to see "its first race of really angry white men." Almost certainly there would be acts of vengeance by the Rhodesian armed forces, probably in the form of retaliatory raids against guerrilla camps in Zambia and Mozambique. Even many whites who had begun to seem receptive to the idea of eventual black rule in Rhodesia wondered, after hearing Nkomo claim responsibility for the air crash in a BBC interview, wondered anew whether there could be a political agreement...