Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chodrow, assistant professor of Physics at Northern Michigan University, also announced that students in the course will have until 4 p.m. today to withdraw from S-1. The registrar's office extended the deadline from last Friday to accomodate students who do not want to continue the course now that it is no longer on a self-paced basis...
...strange but somehow dramatically fitting that the Democrats had assembled in such an unregenerate place to nominate Jimmy Carter, from Plains, Ga., a Southern Baptist who in the '60s did missionary work in the Northern slums. At any rate, the contrast between the nimbus around the podium during Carter's acceptance speech and the derelict streets outside promised to be a memorable touch...
...worst droughts of the century in Western Europe. For at least three weeks and up to six weeks in some hard-hit areas, virtually no rain fell in northern parts; and though by week's end a few droplets had sprinkled on Britain, France and Germany-Denmark by contrast enjoyed a heaven-sent downpour-it seemed likely that the damage done would be felt for months. A variety of crops were ruined, and the death toll from heat prostration ran into the hundreds...
...Band, with Henry Gross, Sunday July 18 at the Music Inn in Lenox. 'Northern Lights, Southern Cross' is one of the best albums of the year...
...even survival. Yet the element of religion gives all these wars an odd phosphorescence. What is important is usually not a deep spiritual faith but rather an intense loyalty to the religious community. The phenomenon has something to do with a clinging to identity, especially in such enclaves as Northern Ireland and Lebanon, whose national identities are fractured and cannot in themselves command patriotic followings. One of Egypt's leading intellectuals, Political Scientist Magdi Wahba, sees signs everywhere of "a disintegration of the national fabric and a religious revival taking its place...