Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dowey and his fellow creed makers, the real significance of the new confession is its emphasis on the theology of reconciliation, something largely absent from the traditional creeds, yet vital to the church today. How the commissioners felt about one form of reconciliation was apparent in the approval of a resolution that states that there are no Scriptural barriers to interracial marriage and urges Presbyterians to work for the elimination of the 19 state laws that still forbid it. Yet in drawing up the creed. Dowey explained, the committee was careful to avoid endorsing such things as sit-ins, since...
Noticeably absent from Dean Ford's plan is any mention of a computer. A report of a Faculty Committee, headed by J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, last year had urged total elimination of Master's choice and assignment by computer. In its reports, the HUC, asked that a computer be used to "tabulate" master and student choices...
...murders in one day," Bundie said half-aloud, echoing the Chief's words. "Two murders in one day." With an absent-minded kick, Bundie sent a stray piece of paper flying. Suddenly his heart leaped to his throat: the paper was identical to the one he had found inside the package the sinister foreigner had given him by mistake! Like some great spark plug, Bundie's mind flashed. Swiftly, he recounted the day's events to himself, "The circle with the Roman numeral seven in it was stamped on the sole of the foot of the other corpse. There must...
Wholesale Murder? Camaraderie, however, was notably absent last week. The chimneys of all but a handful of the city's sento were smokeless, and signs on the doors read, "Suto-Chu [On strike-closed]." The sento suto was called because the city government had been stalling for nearly six months on granting a rate increase from 6.3? to 8.8? per adult admission requested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Bathhouse Business Association on grounds of "increased expenses...
...SWORD IN THE STONE (Disneyland) is as bright as Excalibur. It is the ageless legend of the exploit by which young Arthur, the humble knight's equerry, became King of England. Arthur is simple of soul and fairly regal in silence, but Merlin is a beguilingly garrulous, absent-minded wizard...