Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negligible 65 milliseconds after its scheduled 7:51 am launch time Propelled by an awesome 7,500,000 lbs. of thrust, it soared into the clear Florida sky over Cape Kennedy Two hours and 20 minutes later, as Apollo whirled in orbit around the earth, came the anxiously awaited word to make the translunar insertion-the ma neuver that would send the vehicle to ward the moon...
...Biblical scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany-and he often told students: "Don't repeat what I have said. Learn to think for yourselves." He tried firmly to shun theological fashion, and his constant goal was to bring men back to the authenticity of God's word. Today, Barth's endless, old-fashioned commentary on this message may appear to be an obstacle to that goal. Tomorrow, it may well be read afresh as a vivid encounter of a great thinker's grappling with the divine unknown...
Merton had long been fascinated by Zen, and he argued that Buddhism was a philosophic discipline that could well be employed by Christians. "Buddhism is not word," a he told religion in friends our at sense of the California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions on his way to Asia in October. "It's a totally different approach to reality, a psychological thing. I be lieve it's quite possible for a Catholic to enter into the esoteric traditions of Tibetan Buddhism." He departed for Asia, said W. H. Ferry of the Center, "absolutely bouncing...
...definition, an inventor is someone who converts fancies into facts. A man who turns fancies into facts and then facts into entire industries is much more. He may even be deserving of that overworked word: genius. The description seems to fit Peter Goldmark, 62, president and head of research for CBS Labs. Goldmark built the world's first practical color TV system in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948. His latest discovery may well touch off an even greater electronic convulsion. In Manhattan last week, he displayed the first operating model of Electronic Video Recording...
...Unashamed." In Major Barbara, characterizing the Undershaft family, Shaw drew a composite portrait of Europe's great munitions makers. After explaining the armorers' creed-"To give arms to all men who offer an honest price"-he assigned them as a device, the one word "Unashamed." The word implies at least some contemplation of a moral dilemma. But there is little evidence that the Krupps and people like them ever really considered the possibility of personal guilt. In the best 19th century patriotic tradition, the Krupps-like weapons makers all over Europe-always worked with their own government...