Word: shepherded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Roland de Vaux, 67, the French Dominican priest and biblical scholar who was one of those who penetrated the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. Two years after a Bedouin shepherd stumbled onto a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, De Vaux was among a party of archaeologists who journeyed to the spot. There they uncovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic manuscripts. The 2,000-year-old documents, pieced together and edited by an international team of scholars headed by De Vaux, turned...
Lottery Ticket. Until the very moment of his fall, Nikita Khrushchev was noted for similarly compelling powers of persuasion-and political survival. The son of a peasant farmer in the Ukraine, he worked as a shepherd, steam fitter and coal miner. In 1918 he joined the Red Army, quickly becoming a political commissar. As a delegate to the 14th Party Congress in 1925, he skipped breakfast every morning so he could get a front seat near Stalin...
...other correspondents contributing to the cover story are also veteran observers of Asian fighting. James Shepherd, an Indian national, joined TIME'S New Delhi bureau in 1958. His assignments have included India's border clashes with China and the Indo-Pakistani war waged over Kashmir. Recently Shepherd toured the refugee camps that line the Indo-East Pakistani border. David Greenway, whose most recent beat was the United Nations, formerly served in the Saigon and Bangkok bureaus. Last week he visited the insurgent forces. "The countryside," he says, "looks quite like Viet Nam, and with all the airpower, armor...
...Power. A tough young East Pakistani who calls himself a Naxalite told TIME Correspondent James Shepherd: "For the moment, the common enemy [of both the Awami League and the East Bengali Naxalites] is the Pakistan army. The arms that India gives the Awami League will find their way to the Naxalites, and eventually we will fight not only the army but also the bourgeoisie and the feudal elements." Contemptuous of democratic processes, the Naxalite said scornfully: "Now the Awami League cadres are seeing the truth of the saying that political power grows out of the barrel...
...eerie feeling I was in the wrong place," but returned in 1957. For five years he wrote the magazine's Education section. After surviving a libel suit arising from one of his stories, Shnayerson proposed a Law section for TIME.* He soon became the section's shepherd and one of the most respected legal affairs writers in the country. Appointed a senior editor in 1967, Shnayerson handled TIME'S Essay section for almost two years, has since edited Law. Education and Environment, the last section he started, in 1969. Understatement and high standards are the Shnayerson style...