Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty after Thor Thors, Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S., called on the State Department to talk over the latest "incident" to rag sensitive Icelandic tempers. Ambassador Thors put it plainly: Icelanders were hopping mad because a U.S. sentry forced two of their people to lie on wet ground at the NATO Airbase in Keflavik while he called a sergeant to check their credentials (TIME, Sept. 21); Pritchard's departure would help smooth things over...
...Paul Orgeron himself-six dead in all. Body fragments flew across the street to the roof of a two-story apartment house. Orgeron's left hand-all that could be identified of the man-landed in a hedge 50 ft. away. Principal Doty lay injured on the ground, and 17 children, strewn near by, screamed in pain. A little boy writhed naked, his foot nearly blown off. "That mean old man!" he sobbed. "That mean old man! Will somebody get him? Will I need a crutch for my foot? Why did he have...
...Then," says Miss Johnson, "he showed me the bottom of the suitcase. On it was a doorbell, just a regular little button, and he said when he set the suitcase on the ground it would press the button and it would blow up. He put the suitcase down with one end on the ground and the other end on the tip of his shoe so the button wouldn't touch the ground. I told the children to get back again. I sent a second runner into the school. I thought maybe the first had been stopped in the hall...
Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke and went out. "I come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering--it has not yet reached the ears of man.... This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars--and yet they have done it themselves." Die Frohliche Wissenshaft...
...sense that is far removed from both the letter and the spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle of causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter; such a rarified and remote ontological abstraction or inarticulate mood of awe would seem an uncomprehending parody of the inexhaustibly rich and concrete Personality whose...