Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace quickly became a rosy success. During the war, the Meillands had barely managed to hang on to a remnant of their rose-growing business near Lyon. Now, with royalties pouring in from the U.S., they were able to buy a chunk of expensive land on the Riviera and make a fresh start. In less than a decade, the Peace rose was blossoming on some 30 million bushes throughout the world. "How strange to think," wrote Francis Meilland in his diary, "that all these millions of rosebushes sprang from a tiny seed no bigger than the head...
...visible health and prosperity of existing denominations, there is a considerable number of future-oriented theologians who feel that the church, in large parts of the world, is entering a stage of Diaspora-when, like Judaism, it will survive in the form of a scattered few, the hidden remnant. Strangely enough, there are any number of Christians who rejoice at this prospect rather than fear it. This is not because they want to see the fainthearted and the half convinced drift away into unbelief. Rather, they prefer that the choice of being Christian once again become openly, as Kierkegaard puts...
...threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
...Government-most concern welfare and Social Security payments-Harlem's residents are appealing to state and city agencies. Only rarely do they write to the luxurious four-room suite that Powell used to occupy in the new Rayburn House Office Building n Washington. Two secretaries, a tiny remnant of the staff that Powell once commanded as a Congressman and chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, remain in the office to answer mail...
...came to cutting the script by three hours, however, he became indiscriminately agile, severing vital tendons of continuity, meaning, mood and theme. O'Neill had specified that the play be destroyed if he could not revise it, and after a fashion, Quintero has obliged. What remains is a remnant of O'Neill's melancholy conviction that hell hath no fury quite like a human family...