Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert de Grimston, now in his mid-30s, who is known as "the Teacher" to Processeans. De Grimston has no permanent base, but conducts a will-o'-the-wisp peripatetic ministry, communicating with his followers in letters they call "brethren information." Occasionally he drops in at a Process chapter to teach the "brethren" in person...
...present chapter of Ulster's troubled history stems from the rise of a predominantly Catholic civil rights movement in the late 1960s. Slowly, grudgingly, the province's perpetually Protestant and conservative Unionist Party government made concessions to the long-neglected Catholics. Property qualifications for local elections were scrapped; public housing, which had heavily favored Protestants, was removed from political control; a system of gerrymandering that had ensured Protestant rule over the heavily Catholic city of Londonderry was abolished. Most important, from the Catholic viewpoint, was that the Protestant police auxiliary (the notorious "B Specials") was disbanded...
...CHAPTER III: A cool rain is falling on Clydebank. Labor's ex-Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives at 11:45 a.m. outside the iron gates at John Brown's yard. He is just in time for a warm welcome by shop stewards, a quick briefing on the takeover, and a noon lunch with the workers. He pumps hands with worried men in flat checked caps and tells one apprentice: "This is a grim time, lad." After a spot of tea and a puff on his pipe, Wilson climbs onto a chair and says: "I am here on behalf...
...last chapter in the Teach-in story for this year was written June 2, when the CRR announced the results of its deliberations. Of the 23 accused, the Committee convicted nine: four of these were required to withdraw from the University, three were given of these were required to withdraw and two were given warnings. Ten were acquitted. The University had drawn its line, but it had not produced the disciplinary bloodbath that its earlier statement had hinted...
Pusey's tenure will soon be a matter for the historians of Harvard to evaluate. Doubtless, he will rate a chapter in the sequel to Morison's Three Centuries of Harvard, whenever that is written. Already, he is starting to be memorialized-the Harvard News Office has issued a comprehensive outline of the Pusey presidency, The Pusey Years at Harvard, in handy pamphlet form for reference use by journalists and alumni...