Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Bramer trusts more to instinct. When she senses that bad weather is coming the next day, she beds down in her straw-lined stall in Huntsville, Texas. When some thing tells her that a sunny day is due on the morrow, she ventures forth to graze, even if the weather at that moment is drizzly...
...time the plenary session is adjourned, the tone of the conference has been set. The debates are long and boring. The issues are obscured and the allegations of SWP-YSA influence are never put to rest. Certain militant factions are increasingly alienated, but the proposals put forth by the organizers are passed with near unanimity. And the majority, predominately white and middle-class, reflects with great pride upon its accomplishments...
...Catholic priest and professor of theology at Germany's Tubingen University, has long been attacking these beliefs in such books as The Church and Infallibility? An Inquiry (TIME, April 5, 1971). For seven years, the Vatican has been wondering what to do about him. As letters went back and forth, Kung resisted summonses to Rome for questioning unless he could get open hearings and what he considers "due process." After his final refusal last September, 26 Vatican theologians and administrators began meeting regularly to discuss his case in the gray-and-ocher palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine...
...match was a close affair throughout, as the first four weights seesawed back and forth. Dave Albert dropped a 9-6 decision at 118. But Mr. Consistency, Milt Yasunaga, scored a decisive 8-0 victory to tie the score...
Roman Catholic G.K. Chesterton imagines the fine Catholic realm that might have sprung forth had Mary Queen of Scots married Don John of Austria, the illegitimate brother of Philip II of Spain. Such history tinkering, though, can go on forever. Suppose Don John and Mary had established a Catholic England. Would cross-Channel Calvinism have undermined it eventually? Suppose Luther had been unable to find a nail in Wittenberg for all those theses. Or better, suppose Guedalla's Boabdil had crossed the Pyrenees and swept through France, creating a Moorish Europe. Might there be mosques in Manchester today...