Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conflicting Versions. Each side blames the other for the latest trouble. According to the Soviet version, the Chinese had illegally infiltrated troops into the Russian area. Early one morning, as Soviet engineers landed from two river craft on their part of the island to repair navigation markers, Chinese ambushers opened fire with submachine guns and grenade launchers. The fusillade killed one Russian worker, wounded two and inflicted severe damage on the Blackbird and Turpan, the boats. The Russians, so they say, did not even shoot back...
...graduate study and taught college English in Chicago, where he also wrote a jazz column for a Negro newspaper. In 1941, he became a famous popularizer of semantics with his bestseller Language in Action. At S.F. State, which he joined in 1955, he was a part-time professor with no administrative experience...
...gathered last week to discuss the crisis in the Roman Catholic priesthood. The delegates to the second Europe-wide symposium of the Catholic hierarchy had hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last year's "May events" in Paris, set the tone of the protest. The servants of Jesus Christ, he said...
...radical groups from Holland, Belgium and France, the priests called for three basic reforms: the right of clergy to take a more active part in political and social affairs, an end to the rule of priestly celibacy and democratic election of church leaders. They also wanted to sit in at the symposium to discuss these demands, but the bishops voted to bar the rebel priests. A handful of liberal bishops did, however, push through a motion authorizing them to meet privately and unofficially with "shadow symposium" participants...
...Line. That the doom was a long time coming-more than 250 years-may be credited in part to the tactical genius of another, greater emperor. Hadrian had been ruling barely five years when, in A.D. 122, a frontier tour brought him to the site of the wall. He evolved (personally, according to Divine) a radical new defense plan that helped in part to lend his name to the wall. Previously, Roman soldiers had been stationed in fortlets behind the barrier; from these they were ready to be rushed to threatened segments whenever an attack was mounted. Hadrian added cavalry...