Word: allenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benka, the defending IC4A champion in the shot put, will face some stiff competition from Andy Kenney of Northeastern and George Allen of St. John's. The Harvard captain sustained a slight ankle sprain in last Saturday's Big Three Meet and may be somewhat hampered in his attempt to repeat last year's victory...
...course, they do-though many vow and only some pay. One night last week, such a pitch brought 35 pledges to the Allen altar on the first try-a cool $3,500 if the pledges are all filled. Allen, of course, is well aware that some ministers are offering to release guilty souls from their pledges in return for much smaller offerings. Some of his most fiery recriminations are reserved for these "racketeering preachers" who question his healings and seek to undermine his message to the faithful: that God will doubly repay whoever gives without limit...
...expensive, timeconsuming, highly selective form of therapy, which admits only those patients who suffer from the relatively mild ailments that analysis has a plausible chance of curing. To therapists concerned with the vast volume of mental illness that needs to be treated, write Psychologists Hans H. Strupp and Allen E. Bergin in a study for the National Institute of Mental Health, "a little, but significant, change for a lot of people is seen as preferable to protracted efforts to produce large-scale changes in a few members of the upper social classes...
Muriel Spark's novella was first published in America in The New Yorker. Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation (of her own stage version) betrays its source at every turn. Its details are unfailingly accurate. The school is a chalk dust bowl; the staff is a frightened gaggle arranged in perfect pecking order; the girls throw themselves into adolescence as if they were breaking the sound barrier. But, as in much New Yorker fiction, while the parts promise a vision, the whole does not even provide a view...
Adams's Bob Allen and Quincy's Kent Hales traded blows throughout their 185-pound title match. Allen held on longer to win a tight three-round decision...