Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which invented foreign aid and made it a permanent pillar of the nation's foreign policy, is about to savor the taste of bread cast upon waters. From Buenos Aires came word that, beginning next month, 15 altruistic Argentines will arrive in the U.S. to begin a Peace Corps in reverse, dedicated to the eradication of poverty, ignorance and disease in North America...
...Cathedral, Myers argued that the size and the scope of the problems facing Christianity made it imperative for the church to unite under a single authoritative spokesman. "We need the Pope," he said, "because in this perilous age we need one symbolically potent bishop to give expression to the word of the Lord for our day," Myers further argued that there can be no successful reunion of Christianity without the Pope as its visible center. He suggested that Protestants should leave such doctrinal problems as papal infallibility for the theologians to resolve...
...scene, few correspondents performed more creditably than Timesman James Reston. In Cairo before the war began, he visualized the outcome. "An alarming fatalism seems to be settling on this city," he cabled. "There is very little relationship here between word and action. The government seems to be provoking trouble without preparing for the consequences." The Cairo airport, he noted, was more open to attack than La Guardia airport in New York. The men around Nasser, he reported, were more preoccupied with past humiliations than present dangers...
...Word of the Week. Throughout the week, the overriding economic word was oil, as Arab states, which produce 30% of the world's supply, decided to use their wells as weapons. Iraq, Libya and Algeria cut off all oil shipments, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia embargoed shipments to the U.S. and Britain, and small Qatar refused to load the ships of either nation. The situation seemed most serious for Britain, which gets two-thirds of its oil from the Arabs and has only a 30-day stock on hand. France and Italy, neither of whom was singled out for retaliation...
...Solitaire. His prime concern was financing industry, and nobody wielded more authority in that field than Abs. Quite literally, his word could make or break both upstarts and industrial giants. It was Abs's refusal to advance a $25 million loan that early this year ended five generations of one-man rule at the Krupp industrial complex. "Our influence is one of order, not of power," insists Abs, "as in solitaire one tries to make everything come out even." In his busy retirement, Abs will try to make things come out even at ailing Krupp: among other jobs...