Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, from Washington, Pasadena, Beirut, the Jordanian village of Taiyiba and the loose tongue of Mayor Yorty, the life and bad times of the accused assassin,* Sol Sirhan, came into view. The middle-class Christian Arab family had lived in Jerusalem while Palestine was under British mandate, and the father, Bishara Salameh Sirhan, now 52, was a waterworks employee. The first Arab-Israeli war cost the elder Sirhan his job. Family life was contentious, but young Sirhan Sirhan did well at the Lutheran Evangelical School. (The family was Greek Orthodox, but also associated with other religious groups...
...brilliant tactician whose devotion to the Socialist cause is equaled only by his towering rage at any dissent within his party. Second in the hierarchy after Party Leader Willy Brandt, Wehner formulated the policy that has shaped the party's destiny, including the decision to join the rival Christian Democrats in West Germany's historic Grand Coalition. Last week, in a move that was certain to have profound effects not only on the party but also on the workings of the West German government, the Social Democrats stripped Wehner of his role as chief party strategist...
...Huntington Avenue, past the Prudential Center went the bus. "We have some New York Stores on the right. The Presidential Company owns the lovely 52-story office building there. Our first stop today is the Maparium of the Christian Science Building. But not today. Today is the National Mourning Day for Bobby Kennedy. Its a tough day for this business. You don't know whats open. Watch the traffic light and squeeze left...
...than two inches of rain fell during one 30-hour period, blanketing the once-grassy meadow with a six-inch impasto of mud. Abernathy himself spent his nights elsewhere until a band of Negro militants invaded his hotel. Though they were turned back by staff members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy, chagrined, moved into the camp. But he plainly felt put upon. "I'm supposed to dream dreams and come up with ideas," he said. "This you can't always do down here...
...years ago, Satirist Anthony Towne tried to resolve the theological debate over whether God is dead by publishing an obituary of the Deity. The deadpan story was turned down by a number of journals, but finally appeared in the Christian student magazine motive under the New York Times-like headline...