Word: originating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name, occupation, origin and income...
Ordeal in Camp. Blake's origin was murky enough for any spy. Born in Holland, his father was Egyptian, his mother Dutch. Later she divorced, married an Englishman named Blake, which provided the young son with the proper credentials when he was busy fighting the Nazis as a member of the wartime underground. It was then that he was first recruited by British Intelligence to serve as an agent, later escaping to England...
This new-style speaking in tongues had its origin at a meeting near Interlaken, Switzerland, in 1948, at which a group of North American Protestant evangelical leaders, including Billy Graham and Dr. Harold Ockenga of Boston's Park Street Church, decided that European Protestantism was hiding its light under a bushel. Though there were 28 Protestant religious stations outside the U.S., they noted, there was not one in Europe-which had two-thirds of the radio sets outside...
...interest, our principal target, is the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc," says Broadcaster Freed. To prepare the Russian broadcast-a daily half-hour from 7 to 7:30 p.m., which will soon be increased to an hour-Trans World has called on an American couple of Russian Orthodox origin, Nicholas and Rose Leonovich, who live in Morocco. Their typical program begins with folk music, gradually changing to church music-instrumental at first, then sung-followed by a Christian message...
Astronomy has been more successful in predicting the probable origin of plants, Gamow said. Working independently, Kant and Laplace formulated a "nebular hypothesis." According to this theory, matter with very high angular momentum formed into a ring around the sun. Subsequently, it condensed into the planets...