Word: path
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even with the two freshmen, the Crimson will need McCabe's height and defense if it is to challenge for the Icy title. And with the path of destruction the squad has left in its wake--four league opponents and a scoreboard--an Ivy Championship, more of a possibility now than in year past, may rest on the fragile knee of the sophomore center...
...Dvorak, a professor of statistics at the University of Washington, introduced his Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which groups and centralizes commonly used letters. Typists who mastered it increased their speed, but it never caught on. Dvorak once mused: "If a man makes a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to his door, but Emerson didn't say how long it would take." It took too long for Dvorak: he died...
...path to El Salvador's all-out civil war, however, intensified in October 1979 when a group of "progressive" military officers overthrew the rightist military government and formed a coalition with several leftist political parties. The new government, backed by the United States, pledged widespread agrarian reform and aid to the country's six million poor. It also promised to put an end to repression and human rights abuses by the armed forces, and simultaneously to supress the leftist guerrillas they felt were a danger to the state...
Burdened with weapons and heavy packs, a band of Afghan rebels carefully picks its way up a dark stony path in one of the most desolate places on earth. Suddenly a message is passed down the column, and everyone gathers in one spot. A Soviet patrol up ahead? A suspected land mine? No. It is 8:45 p.m. and time for the BBC's nightly short-wave news, Farsi edition. Like everyone else, the Afghan soldiers want to know what is happening...
...this reason members of the society believe the most authentic path the Black American church can follow is pentecostal: the pentecostal movement in America was founded by a Black man who was interpreting the scriptures in the context of Black American society. The Harvard group is named after that founder. Around 1912 William J. Seymour was an associate minister of his church but lost the approval of his pastor because he belived in the working of the Holy Spirit and the charismatic Spirit were completely consistent with Biblical doctrine as he preached miracle working and healing. Soon after Seymour...