Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient Greeks believed that lightning bolts were hurled from the heavens by a wrathful Zeus. Modern science has shown that the bolts are actually great electrical discharges between clouds and earth. A new theory by a Johns Hop kins scientist indicates that there might be some truth in the old myth after all. At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco last week, Physicist James W. Follin Jr. of Johns Hopkins University theorized that lightning is probably triggered by cosmic rays from deep space...
Colonel Felix Arruza is a grotesque banana republic Zeus who is fond of procreating with comely peasant girls while his wife takes on the palace guard. Among Arruza's numerous offspring is Miguel Ángel Matalax Yanama, a 28-year-old wanderer who has studied law at Harvard and social science in Germany. He has lost an eye as a U.N. observer in the Gaza strip and he has been a teacher and a Red Cross worker in Biafra. But Matalax has eaten the bitter bread of illegitimacy and plans to over throw his dictator-father...
...given to golfing away his last years. But he does need more time to relax and travel, especially since his wife Babe has been ill. Says a CBS executive: "Remember that Paley is 75 and can't work 18 hours day after day. He is like Zeus without the quiver full of lightning bolts. But you've still got to keep your ears open around here for boulders crashing through the fog. Paley can still throw them...
...Zeus sent down sorrow as well as joy to the Crimson team that afternoon, as the same rain that blessed the Radcliffe win also fell on top gun Eleanor Apthorp, who was absent from the meet, with a severe case of the flu that kept her bedridden for the rest of the season. Briefly, the day symbolized the frustrating and rather shaky beginnings of Radcliffe's first cross-country season...
...Althena had an advantage over us." Sissy Farenthold. Chair of the Woman's National Political Caucus (NWPC), sucked the convention members into her words like a pagan priestess mesmerizing a pack of willing iconoclasts. "She sprang full grown from the forehead of Zeus. Our movement is not ordained from on high and we hardly sprang full-grown. Our growth will come with painstaking effort...