Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America's decade-long war in Viet Nam has provoked as much verbiage as any other chapter in the nation's history. But, oddly, it has yet to call forth much popular mythology, the films and fiction with which a society usually explains such episodes to itself...
...Netherlands, who presented such a progressive front at the Second Vatican Council, have suffered another breach in their ranks. A year ago Pope Paul introduced the first new conservative into the Dutch hierarchy by appointing Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam, ignoring the nominations of the diocesan chapter (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971). Now he has named Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, a friend of Simonis and heretofore the rector of an old-age home in a tiny village, to the southern Netherlands diocese of Roermond. As with the Simonis appointment, critics noted, the Pope overlooked the recommendations of the chapter...
Epps maintains that because the publicity for the convention only National SDS--and not Harvard-Radcliffe chapter--the issue sponsorship is not clear...
...execute, but Paul VI regularly calls for clemency in individual cases. Jews are generally against the death penalty, and Israel has no capital punishment except for genocide and war crimes, which covered Eichmann. As for the Bible, it instructs, "Thou shall not kill," and then, in the next chapter of Exodus, provides, "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death...
...What happens in the fourth chapter of the Book of Love? (1 point...