Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only way out of the mess, decided Bank President Ralph Comstock Jr., was to reconstruct each check, shred by quarter-inch shred. So the workers began their chore, segregating the slices by color, length, width, signatures and amounts, then matching and pasting the checks together one by painstaking one. More than 2,000 checks worth about $300,000 have been reassembled. To speed things up the bank is now planning to spread the work into two shifts. Even so, it will be weeks before the job is finally completed...
...church. Right now the church enjoys a slight advantage; a recent poll showed 49.3% against the divorce law, 42.2% for it. Caught in the middle for another agonizing year, meanwhile, are thousands of people who are trying to right old wrongs, give illegitimate children a name, and reconstruct their lives and families...
...grief in other families. A brusque father whose son William was in emotional trouble got "a feeling of being half lost" when he heard Lewis' sobs. Then, says Paul, "he recollected the time when he himself had felt intense grief"-when his father remarried. Then, Paul helped him reconstruct what he knew but had blocked off: that when he was four, his mother had killed both his nine-month-old sister and herself. Because he had repressed his sorrow instead of facing it, he had never recovered from the experience. Under Paul's guidance, he saw that...
SINCE its genesis, the black movement has been one of reconstruction. This term is not meant to connect the black movement with the nebulous politics of that period following the Civil War, for the movement has been more than just a phenomenon of political reconstitution. It has been a social, psychological, economic and cultural as well as a political effort to reconstruct the total black experience. Now, more than ever, it is, in the words of the introduction to the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Afro-American Affairs "a psychological revolution which demands the redefinition and restructuralization...
...expelling all foreign newsmen from East Pakistan. But last week TIME Correspondent Dan Coggins managed to cross the border from India into East Pakistan, where he visited the embattled town of Kushtia (pop. 35,000). After extensive interviews with townspeople and captured West Pakistani troopers, Coggins was able to reconstruct an account of brutality and bravery that took place in Kushtia during the first fortnight of the civil war. His report...