Word: worde
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...Hindi word that derives from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning salty marsh...
...gospel is moving out of the pulpit and into the public consciousness in many unorthodox ways-through jazz and rock Masses, plays, and even electric-light shows. Three current examples of imaginative means being used to interpret the Word in the vernacular...
...three millionth time I've washed this dish. John, tell me to break it. Ask me to sit next to you for a while." He: "Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister...
...Persia. The actual name hockey was born, so goes one tale, when French explorers pushing into the St. Lawrence Valley in 1740 came upon a band of Iroquois Indians whacking away at an object-and each other-with murderous-looking sticks and shrieking "Ho-gee! Ho-gee!" The word, as it turned out, meant "It hurts...
Quiet Objection. How about U.S. law? Hull and Novogrod submit that although the Constitution gives Congress the sole right to declare war, the key word is "declare." The drafters rejected a proposed constitutional phrase giving Congress the right to "make" war. "Declare" was substituted, and, say the authors, "clearly the framers intended to give the President the power to meet a sudden attack without a congressional declaration of war." In addition, Congress has ratified the SEATO Treaty, which provides for aid to member nations threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright...