Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeated a respected San Antonio appellate judge for the Democratic nomination to the state's highest civil bench. Outraged bar leaders attributed the upset to voters, confusing Yarbrough with Donald H. Yarborough, a three-time gubernatorial candidate (TIME, Aug. 30, 1976). After the primary, Yarbrough, a born-again Christian and former counsel to Campus Crusade for Christ, announced that God had instructed him to run for public office and would assist him in judicial decisionmaking. Only then was it revealed that some 13 suits for bad debts and business fraud were pending against Yarbrough in various courts...
They were gods in Egypt. Some two millenniums before the birth of Christ, cats were buried with the pomp of pharaohs, hi bronze coffins and mausoleums complete with mummified mice for delectation hi the afterlife. A drastic decline from this lordly state occurred when the early Christian church decided that the feline was a pagan minion of Satan intimately connected to wicked deeds of darkness. In pictures of the Last Supper, for example, the "bad cat" of Christendom sits at Judas' feet...
...Communists and Socialists first demanded a whole new governing majority. In the end they settled for a series of agreements with the Christian Democrats on specific points of policy...
...help bail out deficit-ridden municipal governments, many of which are run by the Communists and Socialists, the Christian Democrats agreed to support a package of new local taxes...
Both sides faced risks. By helping the Andreotti regime stay in power, the Communists risked antagonizing their own left wing, not to mention the extreme left splinter groups (including many students). The Christian Democrats, who had always vowed not to form a partnership with the Communists, could alienate some support if they seemed now to be reneging on that promise. But Andreotti said he thought the agreement "refutes the theory that Italy is ungovernable." Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer called it "a forward step" that gave the country a badly needed "breath of relief...