Word: healed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders-and blessings-of the world is the immense power of nature to regenerate itself, the tenacity that all life shows as it tries to heal its wounds and survive. Nowhere is this capacity more evident today than in southwestern Washington. It is just a year since Mount St. Helens exploded with a blast releasing 500 times as much energy as the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and sending a cubic mile of earth into the air. Torrents of hot mud went coursing down the mountainside, flattening trees for miles around and turning the Toutle River into a flood of sludge...
...loose confederation of German writers and publishers did as unlike their predecessors 300 earlier. As citizens, they looked on a divided, devastated nation; artists, they found their language by the murderous rhetoric the Nazis. They argued and dis literature and the writer's ability to heal his countrymen. They read manuscripts to each other and decided to convene annually, which they did for the next 20 years. They came to be known as Group 47; Grass joined them in the middle '50s and became the most talented and distinguished alumnus of them...
When Uganda's newly elected President Milton Obote pledged his government to a policy of national reconciliation, he stirred hopes that his brutalized East Central African country might at last begin to heal its wounds. But in the four months since he resumed the office from which Dictator Idi Amin Dada ousted him a decade ago, there has been no peace between the country's bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote...
...been rejected by any of the patients, nor have infections developed in the grafted areas. The body's natural defense system does not recognize it as foreign, like animal and cadaver skin. Thus there is no need to use drugs to help prevent rejection. The wounds heal with little scarring. Says Burke: "We are firmly convinced that the artificial skin is better than anything else now available for the management of acute burns...
...physically and mentally grazed by death, will really behave. A President will always be a target of sorts. And Reagan will go to work each day with his scars to remind him of that sad truth. But so far, there is every reason to believe that this President will heal, and be stronger than before...