Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parish is narrow and looks a bit like the toe of boot-shaped Louisiana being dipped into the gulf. Its highest points are the spines of levees that hold back the river and salt marshes from the 10% of the parish that is dry land. The main highway, Louisiana Route 23, hugging the river's west bank, runs past wooden stands where home-grown oranges are sold and small mountain ranges of lemony-colored sulfur waiting to be loaded on ships...
Happily, the invasion did little damage to Prague, one of Europe's best-preserved and most charming capitals. Even the minor scars have largely disappeared, cabled TIME Correspondent David Aikman from that city last week. "Wenceslas Square, the city's kilometer-long main street, has seldom looked better. There is no sign of tension among Czechs lining up around street vendors to buy ice cream or to window-shop during their brief lunch hour. The large number of uniformed police could be accounted for -nominally at least-by a complicated new system of traffic flow in the city...
...great proponent of industrial reform, Husák has some good reasons for going along with the experiment. Late last year, when it became apparent that the nation's economy was in the doldrums, Husák was almost displaced as Communist Party chief by his main rival, Premier Lubomir Štrougal. Indeed, according to some reports, for three days Husák was actually forced to step down from office. In near panic, his supporters tried a last-gasp tactic: they telephoned a warning to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. He was appalled by the news and ordered...
...Kill the messenger" is what the surly viewer thinks after being subjected to this latest and surely last edition of Bad News. Though what this means is unclear: Kill Tony Curtis, the wretched main character? Kill John Berry, the chartless director? Kill the theater projectionist? A few years ago, there was a cheerful film called The Bad News Bears, about an endearingly inept kiddy baseball team. It starred the endearingly ept child star Tatum O'Neal...
...Rome. He must not only lead a catholic (that is, universal) church, but he must also be simpatico with the people of Rome and of Italy, to whom he is spiritual father. Would Romans applaud as enthusiastically for a Pakistani or a Canadian as he was borne down the main aisle of St. Peter's on the sedia gestatoria as they would for one of their own? A Vatican watcher points to the answer: "I don't know of one Italian Cardinal who would feel happy voting for a foreigner." Agrees W.A. Visser't Hooft, founder of the World Council...