Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manic change in his personality is apparently triggered by some violent alteration in his environment, such as sharp fluctuations in temperature or humidity. At such times, he develops a voracious appetite. He and his fellows move relentlessly across countries and continents, consuming almost everything in their path that man, beast or insect could possibly eat. In the wake of a swarm, the fields and the trees are stripped bare-as if some huge vacuum cleaner had passed over the land. One ton of locusts, which is only a small platoon in a typical swarm, can consume as much...
...struck by hurricanes. Born over the warm seas of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, these large cyclonic systems result from a peculiar blend of heat, winds, atmospheric pressure and moisture. Anywhere from 100 to 800 miles across, they rage north toward Cuba or Florida, assaulting everything in their path. Usually, however, they dissipate before they do too much damage, or veer out to sea. Only one out of four hit the U.S. They are ordinary enough so that they are systematically named, always after women-Beulah, Flora, Dora...
...being. Outside the Soviet bloc, the invasion has accelerated the fragmentation of Communist parties into rival factions, a process begun with the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet schism of the early 1960s. It also greatly weakened Moscow's claim to be the sole rightful interpreter of the true path of Communism...
...Israeli. Hundreds of Arabs rushed to the still-burning mosque, threatening firemen who were trying to control the blaze and shouting "Nasser! Nass-er!" When Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan arrived on the scene, he was jeered. An Arab mob coursed down the Via Dolorosa-the path Jesus took to the Crucifixion-shouting "Death to Israel!" Police blocked them at the fifth Station of the Cross...
...from less than 2,000,000 years to possibly more than 14 million. Yet even that startling leap back into the past amounts to only a few moments in the 4.5 billion-year history of the earth. Three billion years before man's ancestors took their separate evolutionary path from the apes, life already existed and flourished. Despite the new paleontological evidence, man remains a mere infant...