Word: calvinistic
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...prophecy he made when he was elected: "I feel certain that I will prove an unpopular mayor." He had angered almost every important group in town-labor, the newspapers, the merchants, the oilmen, the building trades. He had feuded bitterly with his isman City Council. A reformer with a Calvinist's crusading zeal, he has driven corruption out of City Hall and the Police Department...
...BUDAPEST, Bishop Imre Revesz, head of the Hungarian Calvinist Church, advised Calvinist ministers to accept Hungary's Communist regime; he expressed "anxiety" because "most of my fellow ministers do not yet know or do not want to recognize that the old order of society and economy . . . will not come back...
Last week, the special brand of Communist oblivion reserved for those no longer useful caught up with Tildy. His son-in-law, pudgy Victor Chornoky, recent minister to Egypt, was arrested on charges of treason and espionage. Tiny (5 ft. 4 in.), timorous Tildy, an ex-baron, an ex-Calvinist minister, said: "I can no longer expect the confidence of the Hungarian people, because of his [ Chornoky's] great crimes." Tildy resigned...
...Main Street, the white frame-houses are scrubbed spotless, and box elders border carefully trimmed lawns. The citizens of Sioux Center bear such names as Gerritsma, Ver Steeg, Van de Garde, Schouten; some 97% of the town's population is of Dutch ancestry. Communicants of the strict Reformed (Calvinist) faith, they keep a tight rein on their youngsters. Main Street has one beer parlor, no state liquor store, no dance hall...
...stern Calvinist preacher, Boyd Bode was brought up to be "a good 16th Century Calvinist." At school in Illinois, he dutifully mastered his catechism, the doctrines of predestination and a high tariff. At home one day, young Bode remarked that something might be said for Evolution. His father rushed out of the house, hitched up his horses, and drove all day, praying for his son's soul. "For me," said Bode, "it was a period of unmitigated suffering...