Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worker glared at him. Behind the counter the waitress asked the driver how he wanted his steak. "Christ, any way," he said, and wheeled his stool to show his back to both...
...poodle) or the site of the annual watermelon seed-spitting contest (Paul's Valley, Okla.). Those addicted to the filler material at the bottom of newspaper columns will find an attic's worth of yellowing snippets ("If you had spent $1,000 a day every day since Christ was born, you would not have spent $1 billion...
...Cambridge is likely to run into a violent crime about once every 25 days," says Captain Jeffrey S. Kahn. "Much of what an officer does is routine, not like Starsky and Hutch bombing around all over. I really admire Kojak, because he can always find a parking spot. Christ, I never can. Most police work just isn't like television...
...arrest Cambridge youths. Murphy guesses that local teenagers commit over half of Harvard's crimes. One Wednesday night, Murphy and his partner, Jack Stanton, caught a teenager loitering in the Science Center. "I reached for his arm, and he pulled out this bag full of pills," Stanton said later. "Christ, the guy was so high, he didn't even know he had them, so he said that we must have planted them...
...surprising number simply drop out of organized religion-a defection that may reflect loss of faith and the shrinkage of the job market as the liberal Protestant churches continue their decline in membership. (Since 1966 the United Methodist, United Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches and the United Church of Christ have lost a total of 2.4 million members.) Meanwhile, the more conservative independent Evangelical schools and church-run seminaries are growing in size and prestige, though the report finds that the latter too are absorbing the "religious studies" approach...