Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the first tentative steps toward peace in Southeast Asia, the Middle East edged closer to an explosive new war between the Arabs and Israel. The fresh hostilities flared, as usual, in the name of retaliation-that modern word for the Biblical "eye for an eye" that both sides have employed to justify repeated violations of the 17-month-old ceasefire. Last week it was Israel's turn to retaliate. A few days earlier, the Egyptians had unleashed a sudden Sabbath rocket and artillery barrage that killed 15 Israeli soldiers guarding the right bank of the Suez Canal. Israel...
...Philippines v. Malaysia: At the heart of what so far remains this war of words is, quite fittingly, one particular word. That is padjak, which today in Malay means "mortgage" or "pawn" but a century ago meant "to lease" or "to cede." The issue is whether the Sultan of Sulu in 1878 ceded his rights to Sabah, as the Malaysians claim, or simply leased those rights, as is maintained in Manila. There is nothing much new about the Philippine claim-former President Diosdado Macapagal raised it during his election campaign in 1961. It remained a relatively minor issue until this...
...regain his selfesteem, the loser typically reduces his anguish by explaining away his defeat. Show business's fallen stars often justify their decline in terms of a mysterious force known as The Breaks (another word for fate). Other losers absorb defeat by joining a less competitive game, such as local community activism, which gives them a new chance to emerge as winners...
Retrieving Books. True to his word, Heyns called in campus police to arrest 105 students who had occupied Sproul Hall for ten hours. The students did not resist arrest and the cops were so polite that one demonstrator was even led back inside to retrieve his forgotten books. When more militant demonstrators next occupied Moses Hall, damaging furniture and files, Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty...
Helmsing had urged the paper to drop the word Catholic from its title; the editorial pointed out that the N.C.R. had been conceived as a journal that was within the church but not an official part of it. "We intend to go on being a Catholic paper," wrote Hoyt, "concerned with Catholic activities, values and ideas. We do not consider ourselves to have been severed from the community...