Word: barmene
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...French slots, which cost at least 5 francs (70?) to play, have one startling and seemingly fatal limitation: they cannot pay off in money. Each carries a yellow plaque warning players that they can win only free games. The restriction, however, is roundly ignored. Winners need merely wink at barmen to collect their jackpots from the cash register. "All the café owners give money," asserts one player, who says he can pocket nearly $30 on a good day. Adds a proprietor: "That's true, but I don't give money to just anybody, only to people...
...mash (sausages and mashed potatoes). The Miami News has added a "News from Britain" section and has slapped the British ensign on its vending machines. Dart boards are sprouting like bougainvillea. Rivers of Guinness and Watney's pour through the bars, which are turning into pubs, with additional barmen (and barmaids) to distribute the flood. On sweltering summer days, when the locals huddle around air conditioners, only mad dogs and Englishmen fill the streets and beaches...
Christian history is replete with bone-rattling documents of theological protest that capsuled the pressing issues of the day: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which sparked the Reformation, Pope Pius IX's 19th century Syllabus of Errors, and the German Confessing Christians' Barmen Declaration against Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield...
...just such an idolatry that Barth saw in Nazism, which sought to impose Hitler's ideology on the Protestant churches of Germany. As a leader of the so-called "Confessing Church," Barth, then a professor at the University of Bonn, was the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, which opposed the Nazi infiltration of Christianity as a heathen profanation of God's message. Expelled from Germany in 1935, Barth continued his war of words against Hitlerism from the University of Basel. Later he volunteered for the Swiss home defense force and served as a border guard during World...
...spite of some of these characteristics of laymen and clergy--because of others--the church came closer to Barmen than Westminster when it overwhelmingly approved the Confession...