Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...married priests, no women priests, no acceptance of divorce or of sex outside marriage, including homosexuality. At the Chicago meeting with the U.S. church hierarchy, he praised American bishops for their doctrinal unity with the papacy. But their unity was anything but total. Grumbled one bishop: "He was harkening back to an orthodoxy that I thought we had passed by years ago." Said another: "I almost expected the bell to ring, telling us it was time to go to the next class...
...issue noted, "we had hoped for a miracle -that he wouldn't say anything." The Pope chose to delve into these controversies, in part, because he was under heavy pressure from the majority of American bishops to lend his popularity and publicity to their attempt to back unpopular church teachings...
Neither winner seemed prepared for the honor. At a hectic press conference, a stunned Cormack tried to describe his life. Said he: "I've always been in my little ivory tower and I'd like to get back to it." Hounsfield, a reticent bachelor whose ideas often come on his "rambles" through the countryside and whose recent purchase of a small house consumed "half my worldly wealth," so far sees only one imminent change in his life: he plans to put a laboratory in his living room...
...that the Interviewer talked more than the interviewee, always a bad sign. But Frost had felt all along that this verbal tactic would be essential. Said he: "To set up a detailed discussion of a subject like Cambodia, you have to start with a long question and then come back with sustained follow...
Frost and his staff were at first elated by the results of the initial meeting. Their spirits plunged when reports filtered back that Kissinger would be allowed a period of rebuttal to "clarify" his comments. They suspected that the network was kowtowing to the former Secretary of State because he is a powerful man and has a fiveyear, $1 million contract with NBC as a consultant and commentator. Behind-the-scenes negotiations over ground rules turned the next day's taping into a pressure cooker, but Frost believed that the integrity of the project was still intact...