Word: upliftment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such controversies, the thousands of messengers did not go to the dome-topped Scope Convention Hall in Norfolk to argue. They went for song and sermons and uplift. They went for the "Joggers Jubilee" and a concert by the Anita Bryant Singers. The back-slapping men in plaid jackets, the women in bouffant hairdos and red-white-and-blue dresses, feel good-feel almost evangelical-about a church that is strong and successful and middleclass. For all its hierarchical looseness, the Southern Baptist empire extends to scores of colleges, newspapers and other holdings. The budget to be voted...
...dermatomyositis, a wasting inflammation of the muscles. It's a rare disease, dammit, and no doctor can say whether you are going to get better." The illness, which sent Olivier to a London hospital last year, will not keep him from trouping before the cameras. Noting "the spiritual uplift that comes with work," he announced plans to appear opposite Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood in a TV production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...obscurity. Scientists have recently discovered that it is in the center of a 120-mile-long, kidney-shaped area of land that rose as much as ten inches in the early 1960s. The phenomenon has earned the desert town a dubious notoriety. The Palmdale bulge, as the uplift is called, could be an early warning signal of a major-and potentially disastrous-earthquake...
What scientists fear is that the Palmdale bulge could be caused by dilatency, a phenomenon that takes place in rocks before they break under stress. Tiny cracks open in the rock, increasing its volume; this could account for the uplift of land. Dilatency has already been linked to such quake precursors as unexpected variations in velocities of seismic waves through the earth and changes in local magnetic fields as well as in electrical conductivity of rocks; all have been used to make successful forecasts in the emerging science of earthquake prediction (TIME cover, Sept...
...records, is keeping an open mind on the subject. The swelling could be caused by dangerous strains and dilatency, he says, or might be merely a "false pregnancy," resulting from other, less menacing geological quirks. He points out that there have been instances of land rising-including an earlier uplift south of Palmdale at the turn of the century-without subsequent earthquakes...