Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the allegations had been made by the Rev. Marvin Gorman, yet another televangelist who was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1986 for what one church official called "immorality." Gorman had accused Swaggart of spreading rumors that cost him his reputation. The sad saga of sin and stone casting among the preachers seems far from over...
...Shultz prepared to begin his peace mission, widespread unrest continued to roil the occupied territories and even spread to a new region: the Druze villages of the Golan Heights, seized by Israel from Syria in 1967 and formally annexed in 1981. Some 8,000 stone-throwing protesters clashed with Israeli police in three villages. In all, 33 demonstrators were injured by rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters fired by police in quelling the disturbances. In the West Bank and Gaza, at least three Palestinians were killed last week as Arab youths stoned cars and torched buses to enforce a general...
...hipsters know, can also mean good. But when it comes to Michael Jackson, a lot of music fans think Bad is positively the worst. In a poll of 23,000 readers released by Rolling Stone this week, the Gloved One hit rock bottom in eight categories, including "worst male singer," "worst dressed," "worst album ((Bad))" and "worst single ((Bad))." The backlash has more to do with the singer's quirky personality than his music, says Rolling Stone Music Editor David Wild: "People are responding negatively to his image and to the hype. The category he should have won is 'worst...
...decline in writing skills among American children, the program seems to be a beacon of hope. "Children who respond to this write in a profound way," observes Miriam Kronish, the principal at Hillside. Best of all, "it's fun," says a Hillside fifth-grader and budding poet, Elizabeth Stone. "You can write what you want," she points out, and unlike too many other assignments, "you understand what you are writing about...
...read a book, what matters in the largest sense is not what you read. The information becomes outdated, the writer converted, the reader cold and dead. What matters is holding a book, seeing them line up one against the other, realizing that they are heavy, like concrete, like stone. What matters is realizing that books are not only the monuments of the past, but that they are monuments of us, that they will take our living, breathing place, and that they will assume our space when we have gone...