Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long divorced Paul wonders if anyone knows what causes divorce. They all do. Lorraine says, "The whole purpose in life for our mothers, even going to college, was to be married. I couldn't imagine getting married so soon." She demands to know why you should get married anyway. Just to have kids? Why not adopt? It might be unfair to the kid, someone suggests. Probably, kids need both parents, they agree, both role models, to learn about relationships. They concur, tentatively, that parents themselves might need both parents to raise kids...
...fire and crumbling buildings, if the Soviet warheads exploded aboveground. (Airbursts suck up relatively little debris to settle back to earth later as radioactive fallout.) If the Soviet missiles were detonated at ground level, immediate fatalities would drop to about 2.9 million, but an additional 312,000 would die soon afterward from fallout...
...exiled Shah's residence problems may be resolving, at least temporarily. Mexico announced last week that he is eligible for a "tourist card," which would allow him to stay for six months and could then be renewed. Mexican officials expect him to arrive soon from the Bahamas, where he has spent the past two months...
...flight from Rome to Warsaw, John Paul was able to eat hardly any breakfast and told the 60 reporters and photographers on his plane that he would need to "contain my emotion" during the trip. As soon as the papal jet landed, black-robed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, the Primate of Poland, mounted the steps into the plane. John Paul's shrewd former mentor has maneuvered for three decades to guide the Polish church through the darkest days of Stalinist repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church...
...soon as the Pope stepped from his plane he knelt to kiss his native soil, then bussed a little girl in traditional dress who handed him a bouquet. Obviously moved, John Paul spoke of "my native land, to which I remain deeply attached by the roots of my life, of my heart, of my vocation." Poland, he told the group at the airport, "through the course of history has been linked with the Church of Christ and the See of Rome by a special bond of spiritual unity...