Word: polynesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators have landed on Kahoolawe. Their purpose: by their presence to force the Navy to stop the bombing, at least temporarily. Sometimes the game of hares and hounds turns dangerous: two protesters drowned in rough seas while trying to swim back to Maui after one foray. But the young Polynesian Hawaiians have vowed to continue their protests until the Navy leaves the island in peace. TIME Correspondent James Wilde accompanied the latest expedition and afterward sent this report...
...year-old policy was "immoral and sinful" and that deacons routinely used the term niggers. At President-elect Carter's urging, the church later voted reluctantly to admit blacks. But an Old South faction, which disliked both Edwards' remarks and the fact that he had adopted a Polynesian boy, maneuvered to fire the pastor. Edwards quit instead. The situation deteriorated until those who oppose the old guard and favor moderate racial views started worshiping by themselves last month. After a farewell sermon before the dissident Baptists this week, Edwards will fly to his new church in Makakilo, Hawaii...
Severe Stress. Barring a reconciliation that few expect, it was apparently the end of a marriage that began as Canada's storybook romance. When the pair first met in 1967 on the Polynesian island of Moorea, Pierre, then Canada's Justice Minister, was a dashing, wealthy, bilingual bachelor of 48 and the occasional companion of Barbra Streisand. Margaret, then 19, was the beautiful, free-spirited daughter of a British Columbia industrialist and former Canadian Cabinet member, James Sinclair. Canadians learned of the couple's ultra-private wedding ceremony in March 1971, three years after Trudeau was elected...
...want to tell you one last thing. Remember the joke about the four freshmen from Thayer getting run over by a moped? Remember that funny "phoney fable" about the four athletes from Eliot House drowning in a big vat of Polynesian Meatless Balls? Ever hear of Milton Berle? Yep, I stole them all from Pete and Tommy over at the Indy. Now I'm giving credit where credit is due. You know what they say over at the Travel Desk at Padan Aram--Harvard may be Childhood's End, but Wit's End is truly Wit's End. That...
...Well, that was only the beginning. Davidowitz will be in there this afternoon doing us up a little--actually very big--Polynesian Meatless...