Word: unpreparedness
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Actually, snow blindness is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar...
"All of us are obsolete," Dr. Truman Douglass told a meeting of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries in St. Louis last week. "The new world now emerging demands a new style of church and leadership for which we are unprepared." Perhaps more than any other U.S. Protestant body...
Long Authority. Khrushchev was furious, defended himself with a fulminating three-to-four-hour speech laden with curses and invective. Caught unprepared, he could not counter coolly, and may have hoped to carry the night on the strength of his lungs and his long authority. It did not work. Suslov...
Onward & Downward. But mere Senate stature has never been enough for Hubert Humphrey. The druggist's son has always wanted to be President, or, failing that, at least Vice President of the U.S. In 1956 he thought he had been promised the vice-presidential nomination by Adlai Stevenson. Instead...
Both Kneecaps. But they work for their prize. Not even a trout has a more jaundiced opinion of hooks. Blacks like live bait (a 5-lb. bonito does nicely), and they want it practically spoonfed to them. Some marlin will tail a bait for half an hour, only to decide...