Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II was that from November 1944 to April 1945 the Japanese floated over North America some 9,000 small bombs in paper balloons made of tightly glued pieces of parchment-like paper. Only about 280 are known to have reached the U.S. and hit the ground - in Ore gon, Wyoming, Montana and as far in land as Iowa. The Japanese had hoped the bombs, launched into the Pacific jet streams, would ignite forest fires in the Pacific Northwest and panic...
...Iowa State Historical Museum has mounted an exhibit in Des Monies of bomb fragments and balloons recovered in that state. There were six known victims of the bombing; on May 5, 1945, in Ely, Ore., a woman and five children went to inspect the strange object that had drifted down from the skies and were killed when the bomb exploded. The danger is not over. Some live bombs are still lying about U.S. prairies and mountains. "If you see something that looks like a bomb," cautions Iowa Museum Director Jack Musgrove,"leave it alone and call...
...particularly among young women that the psychological changes have taken hold. Carol Driver, 38, a twice-divorced Portland, Ore., woman who runs her own building maintenance service, detects the shifts in her teen-age girls. Says she: "They don't view marriage as an automatic end. They are much more aware of possible alternatives, to marry or not marry, have children or not. We never used to question the inevitable marriage-and-motherhood route...
Gold was the root of evil. But it was also the Apollonian ore, incorruptible and glittering, that elegantly symbolized the sempiternal radiance of God. Now that paper money and computer records have replaced the feel and ring of heavy metal, most of this symbolism is lost to us. But it remains physically preserved in the sacristies and vaults of Roman Catholic churches throughout Europe, and visitors to Italy this Christmas may get a strong sense of it from an exhibition organized at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to mark the end of the Holy Year. Entitled "Treasures of Sacred...