Word: virgination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich skiers can ski your lives away, but kindly think of nonskiers like myself before you take to the slopes. You are encouraging a sport that causes mountainsides to be razed and hundreds of condominiums and hotels to be built in once virgin valleys. You are destroying the landscape that belongs to all of us just to enjoy a "sensual experience...
Amidst all the destruction, a small statue of the Virgin Mary remains unscarred among buildings, trees and tanks that were smashed and gutted; it has become something of a symbol of An Loc's agony and endurance. Another statue, of Jesus with arms out stretched, did not fare so well. Although most of it survives, the Saviour's right arm has been blown...
...woman named Takla, a follower of St. Paul, was driven into the desert by her pagan father in A.D. 45. Fleeing soldiers intent on raping her, Takla ran into the cul-de-sac of Maloula's canyon. Trapped, she raised her hands in desperate prayer to the Holy Virgin. Miraculously the mountains parted, creating a narrow passage at the top of the valley that permitted her to escape. Villagers still dip their hands in a fountain at the Convent of St. Takla, built into the rock face, in belief that the water has miraculous properties...
Bearing out this contention is the fact that there is a growing black market for methadone. In many cities, it is being sold by pushers to "virgin" drug abusers seeking the orgasmic reaction, almost as intense as the heroin "rush," that methadone produces when injected into a vein rather than taken orally. Besides, though complicated to manufacture, methadone is cheaper than heroin (perhaps $20 instead of $50 a day) partly because big crime has not-as yet -moved...
...closed-circuit TV, the researchers watched 50 scientists of the Interior Department's Tektite program as they made underwater observations of deep-sea phenomena off the coast of the Virgin Islands. The scientist-crews went down in a submersible habitat in groups of five and remained submerged fathoms deep for two or three weeks at a time...