Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early reports on the results of flood disasters always reckon the damage in terms of immediacy and emotion. The number of homeless and dead occupy the front pages of morning-after newspapers and find their way into radio bulletins. This initial reaction is natural, but when the waters recede, the real disaster will be primarily a financial one. Victims may escape with their lives, but, because they are uninsured, they will never recover from the economic effects of the floods...
...post-election diplomatic reception in Djakarta last week, a Western newsman remarked to Nationalist Party Leader Ali Sastroamidjojo: "I reckon you are pleased with the way things have turned out." Retorted the ex-Premier with a smile: "I reckon...
...education. Professor Bestor stirred up angry storms of controversy with his Educational Wastelands (TIME. Nov. 16, 1953), an extensive, documented attack on the "narrow group of specialists in pedagogy" who, Bestor claims, control U.S. schools. Those who thought that Wastelands was his final word of denunciation did not reckon on Bestor's persistency-or his thoroughness...
...permission to marry. The Queen, as head of a church that does not recognize divorce, would find that permission all but impossible to grant in the case of divorced Group Captain Townsend. But though now free and 25, Margaret, as an heir to the throne, must still reckon with objections from Parliament, where the bishops in Lords and the powerful Nonconformist backbenchers in Commons could make trouble. To get around this, Margaret would probably have to trade her right of succession to the throne for marriage with the man of her choice...
...finding them wanting, Dr. F. Eppling Reinartz, secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, told the International Sunday School Convention in Cleveland that Sunday schools 1) do not "typically appraise the worth of a person" by Christian values, 2) foster a "shallow and confused" theology, 3) "do not reckon with . . . social resistance to righteousness...