Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contends that the Supreme Court's 1969 voiding of the House's exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell announced the principle that Congress was not immune from judicial review in its handling of an individual...
When God created man he set him up to score big in life. He put Adam on first base and gave him a choice: he could run with God and never get thrown out-or he could try it on his own. Adam chose to go it alone and was nailed. In fact, the attempted steal failed so miserably that the team still hasn't recovered. God never meant for it to be so difficult. He sent a pinch runner, Jesus Christ...
...piloted Caledonian to the heights is Chairman Adam Thomson, an outspoken 46-year-old Scotsman who flew for the British Royal Navy in World War II, then spent 15 years as a commercial pilot before setting up Caledonian with five partners in 1961. Early on, Thomson established two major operating principles: he wanted the airline to be distinctly Scottish in character, so that it could emulate the success of other airlines with a distinct national identity; and he wanted a mix of chartered and scheduled services. In 1962 Caledonian became the first British airline to win a regular transatlantic charter...
...denomination has long been expected to occur at the national synod convention in New Orleans this July. Since he was elected president in 1969, Preus has been fighting the "historical-critical" approach to the Bible that casts doubt, he says, on the literal accuracy of such biblical tales as Adam and Eve and Jonah and the Whale. Less literal Lutherans have hoped to defeat Preus by nominating a popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, the stem-winding radio preacher of The Lutheran Hour. But these hopes were threatened when it turned out that denomination bylaws require all presidential candidates...
...night transportation for lone women. Most groups run educational campaigns advising women about ways of discouraging attack. The Los Angeles squad, noting that karate takes years to master, advocates screaming as a possible alternative. Sandy Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash...