Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christianity in Turkey may indeed be at its darkest hour, but the whole of Eastern Orthodoxy, with all of its diverse ethnic membership, will live on as it has for the past 1,900 years...
...this time on the Sunday before the vote. Both sides met again in Church's obscure but comfortable private room off a corridor in the Capitol. Lewis arrived with an aide and a quip: "I go to Church on Sunday, like every good Christian." But in a two-hour showdown, the talk turned serious as the ambassador, Rogers and the Senators struggled to compose a reservation acceptable to all parties. Byrd crouched on his knees, honing a draft over a coffee table. Lewis chomped on ice cubes...
Before his weekend departure, Vance received yet another sign that his second mission to Moscow had gone better than his first: during a final, two-hour meeting with Brezhnev, the Soviet leader and Vance agreed in principle that a Carter-Brezhnev summit would be desirable in midsummer-if a SALT agreement can be worked out by then...
Laboratories throughout the West and Midwest, the regions where most Mexican grass is consumed, reported they were overwhelmed with requests to test marijuana samples. In Los Angeles, Disc Jockey Jim Ladd urged members of his post-midnight audience to telephone President Carter with their complaints about paraquat; within an hour, almost a thousand Southern California calls flooded into the White House. More than 5,000 marijuana samples were mailed to PharmChem laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., where 22 new employees have been hired to keep up with the testing demand; last week the lab reported traces of paraquat...
...Eliot was wont to note, April is the cruellest month, but with yesterday's 42-degree, 35-miles-per-hour bluster, Harvard spokesman Spence Fitzgibbons put it better: "It was a really rude...