Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced by the shock of war, Indians have shed illusion for the reality of a world where soft words are no substitute for bayonets when an aggressor strikes...
Still dull with sleep; "Alas," you moan, and shed...
Although introduction of the vernacular is the most important change proposed by the reformers, many bishops also want to shed some of the "accidental accretions" that were incorporated into the liturgy, in some cases as much as a thousand years after Christ. The reformers argue that some of the symbolism and ceremony that was meaningful to a 12th century Roman is lost on a 20th century African. Mission priests have asked to use more native music and dances as part of the rite; an American liturgist even suggested the use of Negro spirituals in some services. "The Gregorian chant...
...world's most fully automated shipyard, capable of building colossal, 140,000-ton ships on the industry's first real assembly line. It throws out the old method of building ships on stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will be installed, so that the ship does not have to spend months in a fitting dock after launching. As the bow of one is being completed, the stern of the next will...
...rejoin the world revolution, America must shed its materialism, symbolized abroad by the ubiquitous PX, which Americans patronize to avoid local contacts. With a pique that suggests he was once sassed by a PX clerk, Toynbee calls on the President "to sign one executive order abolishing all PXs throughout the world, and another order releasing from their contracts all American government servants abroad who feel incapable of lapping up local food and drink...