Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...develop a nuclear bomb, primarily to strengthen its defenses against neighboring India. When New Delhi tested its first atomic bomb in 1974, Islamabad stepped up its own efforts. The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was then Pakistan's Prime Minister, warned that "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry" to build the country's own weapon. "There's a Hindu bomb, a Jewish bomb and a Christian bomb," Bhutto once wrote. "There must be an Islamic bomb...
Rogers' victory is an example of organized grass-roots resistance to liberal trends in current religious thought and behavior. Conservatives campaigned in 15 states to draw the inerrancy voters to Houston. Rogers will enjoy wide influence and has indirect power over the appointment of seminary board members. He is already on record as being interested in the idea of investigating the seminaries and what they teach...
Under a blazing African sun, the guerrillas' battered trucks crashed through the thick bush of southern Angola. Small bands of soldiers trekked beside the sandy roads. Their destination: a clearing in the jungle known only by the code name Chipundo. There, among the camouflaged grass huts of a hastily erected "instant village," a burly, bearded man with skin the color of oiled ebony embraced each new arrival. He was Jonas Savimbi, 44, who had convened the annual congress of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) to prove a point: far from being wiped...
...makers?Rainer Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders?whose reputations as cinematographic cult figures rival those of the Truffauts and Godards who starred in France's Nouvelle Vague of the '60s. Director Volker Schlondorff won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival last month for his film version of Gunter Grass's classic, The Tin Drum...
...Festival jurors (among them Actress Susannah York and Indian Director Satyajit Ray) insisted Apocalypse split honors with The Tin Drum, an adaptation of the Günter Grass novel by West German Director Volker Schlondorff (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum). It was the first time since 1973 that the Golden Palm had been awarded to two films. Some boos and jeers greeted the announcement of the decision. Cynics also noted Apocalypse did not have to contend with two popular films, Woody Allen's Manhattan and Milos Forman's Hair, both of which were screened outside of competition...