Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently found bones of Proconsul's forearm and hand spoiled this theory. According to Anatomists John Napier and Peter Davis of the University of London, they clearly belonged to a brachiator, a creature that swung by its hands from bough to bough. So Proconsul must have been an ape, perhaps an ancestor of modern apes but not of non-brachiating man. The true missing link is still to be found...
First topic on their agenda: THE HOLY BIBLE, ITS AUTHORITY AND MESSAGE. So far has the pendulum swung from literalist respect for the authority of the Bible, the bishops feel, that even some professing Christians are tending to look upon it as a collection of fairy stories. To combat this tendency, the bishops hope to educate the public to interpret Biblical statements and events in terms of the thought forms of the people who wrote the Scripture down. Said one bishop: "The Bible mustn't be thought of as the Koran is thought of. It hasn...
...liberty in Guantánamo city, eleven uniformed, unarmed U.S. marines and 17 equally inoffensive U.S. sailors climbed aboard their chartered bus one night last week for the 15-mile ride back to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. Suddenly the headlights picked up a band of armed men. Guerrilla fighters in Cuban Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro's 19-month-old uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, they climbed aboard the bus and ordered the driver to turn east...
...Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round so completely that when Count Isaac de Camondo willed the Louvre 56 impressionist paintings (including Degas' Foyer de la Danse, Manet's The Fifer), they were accepted unanimously by the Curators' Committee...
...weighty oaken doors of the Norman church of St. Bartholomew in Orford, England swung open with a groan, and out ran a small boy wearing the head of a mouse. After him tumbled a lion, a camel, an owl and an ass. Their capers among the tombstones scarcely drew a second glance from the local citizens, for everybody recognized them as the star performers of the Aldeburgh Festival's current star attraction: Benjamin Britten's eagerly awaited new music drama, Noye's Fludde...