Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bastards!" On every rooftop, Pakistan's green-and-white flags hang limply in the steamy stillness. "We all know that Pakistan is finished," said one Bengali, "but we hope the flags will keep the soldiers away." As another form of insurance, portraits of Pakistan's late founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and even the current President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, were displayed prominently. But there was no mistaking the fact that the East Pakistanis viewed the army's occupation of Dacca as a setback and not a surrender. "We will neither forgive nor forget," said one Bengali...
...mother lived on with her crushing sense of guilt that Karen's last thoughts had been of rejection. To ease her grief, the mother turned to the Society of Compassionate Friends, a rapidly growing organization that brings together parents of dead and dying children for what Founder Simon Stephens calls a therapeutic friendship...
...love, cherish and obey, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance." Despite the escapades of its founder. King Henry VIII, the Church of England has always taken those venerable words of the wedding service literally. The Anglican stand against divorce cost the Duke of Windsor his throne and Princess Margaret her first love. Peter Townsend. The same rule holds for the Episcopal Church in the U.S., and the late Bishop James A. Pike quit the church because it refused to sanction his third marriage...
Barrage from the Board. This unstructured management approach did not go over well with the company's founder and major stockholder, 72-year-old Nate Sherman, who is Gordon Sherman's father. Nate had started the firm in 1938, become known for dependable wholesale distribution in a generally haphazard field, and prospered in the postwar auto boom. He built the business into a $3.5-million-a-year operation by the time Son Gordon joined the organization in 1950. Gordon promoted the idea of starting Midas Muffler Shops -franchised retail outlets with specialists in trim uniforms. The Midas idea...
...project: empty smugness, satisfaction without self. Only Ian Holm, as the passive hero, seems to grasp the thematic apperception: modern man and his society are in a schizoid clash where and brain, instinct and intellect, struggle for primacy. He alone defines ambiguity in the loftiest sense. Clement & Co. founder in the lowest...