Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eight-Foot Wave. Hardest hit by far was Pennsylvania, where rampaging rivers slashed through dikes, destroying factories, homes, shops and theaters. In Wilkes-Barre, thousands of volunteer dike-builders worked frantically to stem the surging Susquehanna-to no avail. When the river burst the sandbagged levee, an eight-foot wave surged through Wilkes-Barre's central business district. "My God," a volunteer wept, "we just couldn't do it." Finally, the water receded, leaving a three-inch layer of sour-smelling muck on everything it touched...
...survival, then what was the motive in fighting? Peled considers that it was actually to stem the growing Soviet influence in the Middle East. It was the Russians, in Peled's view, who convinced the Egyptians that Israel would not fight over the Straits of Tiran, through which only 2% of Israeli shipping moved. They were proved wrong...
Both Jervis and Kurth specialize in international relations. Dunlop's original reluctance to promote two men and let them compete for one vacancy may stem from his recognition that in the field of international relations, only half a vacancy exists. Presumably, both Kurth and Jervis are now vying for the spot that Henry A. Kissinger '50 once occupied. But Kissinger is only half gone. Although Dunlop says, "As far as I'm concerned he has resigned." the chairman of the Government Department says that Kissinger can return to his place if, sometime in November, he communicates his intention to leave...
Fewer Children. To be sure, Japan, unlike many Western societies, has long recognized suicide as a morally permissible act, a kind of supreme statement. Not so in this case, say the sociologists. Most of the suicides among the old stem from loneliness, miserable living conditions and the worries of trying to get by on an insufficient income. Other statistics are equally grim. Of the deaths caused by fire in Japan, 40% involve the elderly. About 660,000 older people now live alone-a circumstance that was unheard of before World...
...such charges are true, Garner Ted Armstrong might have had any number of reasons to disagree with his father. Indeed, reports one insider, much of the trouble may stem from three sermons Garner Ted gave at Big Sandy, Texas. In one, he wondered aloud why church members did not experience more healings. In another, he emphasized the Apostle Paul-a nearly forgotten man in W.C.G. theology because he talked of a New Covenant replacing the old. During a third, Garner Ted questioned whether the church had the proper presence of the Holy Spirit...