Word: untold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brethren in the East. One year ago last week, the Bengalis thronged the polls in Pakistan's first free nationwide election, only to see their overwhelming mandate to Mujib brutally reversed by West Pakistani soldiers. That crackdown took a terrible toll: perhaps 1,000,000 dead, 10 million refugees, untold thousands homeless, hungry and sick...
...derails trains of thought, discomfits the orthodox, and disrupts debate. But he may also be responsible for preventing untold numbers of colleagues from dying of sheer boredom. What is more, he knows the ropes at the United Nations General Assembly better than anybody else, for he has been there since its first meeting in 1946. He is Jamil M. Baroody, 66, a Lebanese-born New Yorker who is Saudi Arabia's U.N. representative...
...those who cannot conceive the possibility of life without water (which Sagan calls "liquid-water chauvinism"), without oxygen ("oxygen chauvinism") or in the presence of intense ultraviolet radiation ("ultraviolet chauvinism"). Yet life can indeed develop under conditions radically different from those on earth. It did, for example, evolve during untold eons on earth when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. To those primitive forms of life, in fact, oxygen would have been a poisonous gas. Thus instead of requiring oxygen, Martian organisms, like some terrestrial bacteria, might thrive in a carbon dioxide environment. To obtain water if they need...
...heaven, according to the book of Revelation, the streets are paved with gold and the walls are encrusted with jewels. The myth persists in some quarters that the Christian church resembles that sort of heaven on earth. Tales of untold wealth are propagated even by churchmen. The late Episcopal bishop James A. Pike once wrote wildly in Playboy that the Society of Jesus owned 51% of the Bank of America. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has predicted that tax-sheltered churches would some day be able to control the entire U.S. economy...
...Pope wants future church investments to be not only legal but moral, whether or not they are profitable. He has even considered forming a Third World investment syndicate, regardless of the financial return. Meanwhile, for other reasons, Paul is damping a movement that would cost the church untold millions and drastically alter its economy. If priests were allowed to marry, the church would have to pay them enough to support their families...