Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to convey always an almost tangible sense of strength and an extraordinary, low-burning joy?joy in adversities endured, joy in the signs of national pride and faith that he saw before him, joy in being a Christian, in being human...
Poland's own television provided more extensive coverage, but played down the crowd size and response. Meanwhile, officials did their best to belittle the turnout, offering reporters a ridiculously low estimate of 120,000 for one of the Czestochowa Masses. The audiences were "disappointing," one official declared, and Czestochowa's mayor let it be known that he had laid in 400 tons of bread a day to feed 1.5 million visitors and had a lot of it left over...
Residents of Accra were startled last week when a low-flying jet trainer zoomed over government-built skyscrapers in the Ghanaian capital. People in villages as far as 400 miles away were later treated to the same unusual sight. The pilot of the plane was Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33. The madcap buzzing was his way of announcing that the fourth coup in the country's 22 years as an independent nation had apparently succeeded...
Tidal power is being generated in small quantities in France and the Soviet Union. Long, low dams are built at estuaries, where the tidal rise and fall is large. The dams capture the water at high tide and let it run out through turbines at low tide. The catch is that power is generated only twice...
...call "bouti-quification," in which remodeled quarters tend to be filled with souvenir shops, candlemakers and T shirt dispensers. A more serious problem is what the English referred to as gentrification: the process by which affluent couples take over and rehabilitate rundown districts, leaving no place for their former low-rent occupants to go. This has not been allowed to happen in Savannah and other cities where minority groups, assisted by token loans, have been able to rehabilitate their own neighborhoods with sweat equity. Such programs benefit not only minorities but the cities as well...