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...Albuquerque, Dr. T. M. Pearce of the University of New Mexico predicted that the atomic age would make English a language of acronyms-words formed from the initial letters of other words. Samples: snafu (and variations), UNESCO, AWOL...
There was a notable vacancy this week among the ghosts of Bushido warriors who circle endlessly above Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The AWOL god was Naval Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, who was racked up among the immortals 42 years ago when (supposedly) he lost his life in Admiral Heihachiro Togo's crippling attack on the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur...
...veteran find himself, it's about time somebody rehabilitated the folks back home. We think there is quite a lot of fighting still to be done before we and our children can have a future which measures up to our yardstick. We think a church with fewer members AWOL offers a solution. We know that while the church may not have all the answers, it has some of them...
Divided into 25 pairs, equipped with orange-&-black arm bands labeled "G.I. Lutheran Team," they spent three weeks last month calling on each of the 600 families represented in the congregation. They pointed out to AWOL church members that though times are dark, if more people went to church, things might get brighter. Most Sunday stay-at-homes promised to mend their ways; only one family gave the G.I.s a complete brushoff...
This month, to check results, church ushers began passing out attendance cards for members of the congregation to sign. The first Sunday showed notable improvement: a congregation of 510-70% above the average. Last Sunday's tally stood at 545. In the next month, those who are still AWOL will receive another call from the Lutheran G.I.s...