Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West. In reprisal for supporting the attempted Dubček liberalization, thousands of professionals and technicians who stayed behind were forced into menial jobs. What remains of the once flourishing Czechoslovak culture is a wasteland of agitprop that French Poet Louis Aragon has called a "Biafra of the spirit...
...time each Cardinal-elector walks into St. Peter's Basilica for the pre-conclave Mass of the Holy Spirit this Friday, he will have taken two elaborate oaths of secrecy, one when he first joined the assembly of waiting Cardinals in Rome, another shortly before the conclave. Then, as the conclave begins, he will take a third oath along with his fellow Cardinals, pledging yet again to observe secrecy in any matter "pertaining to the election of the Roman Pontiff," under pain of excommunication...
...invisible banana peels and eldritch hazards. "People now feel they have the right to legal redress if anyone or anything imposes upon them and interferes with their ability to enjoy life," says Chicago Lawyer Philip Corboy, whose firm is prosecuting the case against Sears. This "I'm entitled" spirit is spreading so that it is time to wonder: Is there any limit at all to the world's liability for an individual's risk? Can there be a really risk-free society...
...Americans have always wanted more than mere insurance. As soon as the automobile became popular, the motoring public began to develop what San Francisco Liability Lawyer Scott Conley calls the belief that "there must be a pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions in the past ten to 15 years, has been increasing five times as fast as the population in bellwether California...
...spirit of harmony at the Lambeth Conference-the eleventh since 1867 -may have been helped by the decision to have the bishops live together in a conclave at the University of Kent as temporary celibates, rather than scatter to London hotels with their wives after the working day. Ironically, while the bishops were contemplating female equality, their wives were cooped up in a sort of enforced purdah in another college three miles away, not able even to telephone except in case of emergency...