Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believers pledged to use their own money and labor for renovations. Even so, prospects look dim. "They're afraid that if they open a church for us, they'll have to start opening churches all across the country," said Petition Organizer Benjamin Kozulin. Attempts are made to gather signatures in church grounds, but church employees who owe their jobs to the government break up the crowds and chase away the petitioners. When Kozulin and fellow church members made a similar effort a decade ago, he was threatened with imprisonment in a lunatic asylum and nine organizers lost their...
...Benjamin G. Ferris, director of environmental health and safety for UHS, said yesterday his concern over the structure of some of the fire escapes has led him to hire a fire inspector engineer...
...distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults in me, whereas I see only one fault in you (but perhaps it is the fault of my glasses...
Esther Peterson, Carter's effervescent consumer affairs adviser, said yesterday the bill's supporters may still be as many as 20 votes short in the House, according to an estimate made by longtime consumer advocate Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D.N.Y...
...proving costly: "With that declaration Carter managed to obliterate the one element that made him different?the innocence of the outsider, the incorruptibility of the unentrenched. That difference was his major hold on the American people." Other bureaus saw that hold slipping as well. From Chicago, Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate reported that Carter had lost credibility because of his "mulish support of Lance in the face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself...