Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Chiefs play football, and called time out for "a Holy Ghost break." He began to shout: "Glory to God! Jesus is Lord." The audience rose and joined in. The Scoreboard flashed JESUS IS LORD and then displayed an illuminated portrait of Christ. As the excitement built, a gurgling sound rose from the audience: "Ye ked ee aky shangda." The Charismatics were celebrating the New Testament-period practice of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues...
...over the years, Turner emerged as one of the most widely experienced and successful sailors in the world, winning in a variety of boats under every condition. As a skipper, he is a fire storm of energy, ranting, cursing, praising, excoriating. On the waters of Rhode Island Sound off Newport, he has driven his crew to a razor-sharp edge. Conservative in his tactics when in the lead, he will stop at nothing when he is behind. The final race last week against Enterprise was typical. Trailing at the final buoy, Turner drove his crew through 19 tacks...
Jean-Louis Scherrer staged his fashion rendition of the hunters and the hunted to the sound of baying hounds and music from the film Barry Lyndon. His Loden capes and hunting jackets gave way to evening gowns ornamented with leopard-paw clasps and, finally, to chiffon sheaths in panther prints...
...return to power. After all, they argued, posters that had appeared in Peking and Canton last spring announcing Teng's appointment as Premier had proved to be false alarms. The day after the disappearance of the first poster, however, several similar ones were sighted. Foreign residents heard the sound of cymbals and drums reverberating through the capital, suggesting that demonstrations were being rehearsed in preparation for celebrations of Teng's comeback...
...sound decision. Contrary to the rosy projections of some Western computer makers, the Soviet Union in the immediate future will probably not be a lucrative market for Western equipment, even if the NATO nations drop their sales restrictions. Not only does Moscow lack the hard currency for large-scale purchases of Western equipment, but it also is pumping big amounts ($10 billion during 1970-75) into the development of its own computer industry, which has an estimated 80 plants employing 300,000 people. One Western expert, Bohdan Szuprowicz, a Polish-born authority on Soviet computers who advises major U.S. companies...