Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Hail Marys? Until recently, most U.S. sisters were barely prepared for the 19th. In 1952, one survey showed that only 13 out of the 255 religious communities had training programs to provide their nuns with bachelor's degrees, while 118 had no educational facilities of their own. So heavy was pressure from bishops to get nuns, even if badly trained, into expanding parochial-school systems that thousands of sisters were sent out to teach after two years of a spiritual novitiate. By secular standards, few were qualified to do much more than keep order in class and provide...
...fire was, but it wasn't the driver of the big red fire engine on the road outside Athens, because he slammed on his brakes to ask which way. The Thunderbird trailing behind was tooling along at the usual fast pace of its owner, Greece's dashing bachelor King Constantine, 24, with his sister, Princess Irene, 22, and it did not stop on a drachma. Instead, it crashed into the rear of the fire engine. The reigning monarch and Irene came out of the accident with a few bumps, but the front of the car was a wreck...
President Mary I. Bunting of Radcliffe conferred the Bachelor of Arts degree on 233 members of the Senior class yesterday morning, as a warm sun streamed down upon Radcliffe's 82nd Commencement exercises in the Radcliffe Yard...
...British-appointed Governor Sir Richard Luyt declared a state of emergency throughout the colony, ordered a 7 p.m-to-5 a.m. curfew in one troubled area, and sent a hurry call to London that brought 500 more Tommies to reinforce the troops already on hand. Still the killing went on. At Bachelor's Adventure, a predominantly Negro village 14 miles from Georgetown, Negroes took up spears and pitchforks, began attacking Indians and burning their homes. A pregnant woman, mother of eleven, was killed by a spear thrust in the back, her husband was critically injured, and an Indian watchman...
This mystical country stirs such admiration in Arizona that five years ago Phoenix boosters formed a syndicate to finance Curtis for three years' work. Then Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. took him on, selling his better oils at $3,000 apiece. Now the bachelor artist lives in a cool wooden bungalow on a dirt road called Cattle Track, paints prolifically and has no link to any school...