Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linguistic purists in the Pentagon insist that the neutron bomb is a warhead and not a bomb at all, but many military experts classify shells, warheads and other explosive weapons that come down on the enemy from the air as bombs. The word derives from the Greek bombos, meaning a deep hollow sound. In the earliest known use of the word in English, an anonymous translator of a Spanish treatise described in 1588 how the Chinese used "many bomes of fire, full of olde iron and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme...
Premier Giulio Andreotti made a deliberate effort to show that the government was operating as usual. He conducted meetings on the economy and distributed a promised economic policy report. This week he will receive Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis in Rome, then travel to a Common Market summit meeting in Copenhagen. Said a Cabinet official: "The greatest danger of the kidnaping is that the normal activity of the government might be diverted. To forget the economy would be to play into the hands of the terrorists...
DIED. Germain Seligman, 85, art merchant and scholar who helped win recognition in the U.S. for painters of his native France; in New York. After serving with distinction in the French, Greek and American armies of World War I, Seligman immigrated to the U.S. in 1921 and inherited his father's art business, Jacques Seligmann & Co. Germain championed Picasso, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec as well as earlier French artists whose work had escaped critical acclaim...
Symposium on Ancient Medicine--Therapeia: Doctor and Patient in Ancient Medicine. Sponsored by Greek and Latin. Lecture by Ruth Padel, Lecturer in classics, Oxford and Cambridge Universities on "A Doctor in the Nous: Greek Perceptions of Human Beings which create the Doctor's Way," 10:15-12 a.m., Room 264, Science Center...
Lecture by Heinrich Von Staden, Associate professor of classics, and Philosophy, Yale University on "Greek Theories of Human Development and Their Application to Clinical Practice," 11:45-1:45 p.m., Room 261, Science Center...