Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Founder Mauro Tappella, 26, a student at the University of Rome, says that his movement, now perhaps 2,000 strong, is building a new "European soul." Apparently it can already muster surprising political strength. In a matter of hours, it persuaded 74 members of the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies to demand official efforts to free the jailed TSUM leafleteers. So far, Moscow has not obliged. The students, who stand to be charged with "hooliganism," face up to five years in jail...
Mormon belief depends largely on the writings of Prophet Joseph Smith, the church's 19th century founder. Though Smith's first book of revelations, the Book of Mormon, clearly states that "the Lord denieth none that come unto him, black and white," in The Pearl of Great Price, Smith's later translation of revelations supposedly made to Moses and Abraham, he took a dimmer view. Smith there concluded that Negroes are the descendants of both Cain, the Bible's first murderer, and Ham, the disrespectful son of Noah; the reason for their exclusion from the priesthood...
...entry became the C-5A. The two losers, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney, were eager to find a market for their rejected designs. Boeing's chief, William Allen, decided to risk what turned out to be $1 billion in turning the military reject into a commercial success. Pan American's founder, Juan Trippe, who had ordered the first 707s a decade before, was still in command. He backed Allen by placing the first order for 25 of the 747s and taking an option for more...
...Hugh J. Davis, co-founder of the-Johns Hopkins contraception research center, told the subcommittee that "breast cancers have been induced in at least five different species of animals by treatment with the same synthetic hormones being marketed in oral contraceptives...
...Minna Bernays, a large, imperious and imposing woman who lived with the Freuds for over 40 years. In the current issue of the Andover Newton Quarterly, published by the theological institution outside Boston where Billinsky is a professor, the author adds this humanizing revelation to the history of the founder of modern psychoanalysis...