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Word: chur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill the Roman Catholic hierarchy with clerics who insist on strict obedience to church teachings. In recent months, however, many of the faithful have been alarmed by the Pope's determination to override the sentiments of local clergy in order to get his way. Angry liberals in Vienna and Chur, Switzerland, have even resorted to blocking cathedral entrances to protest the consecration of new, archconservative bishops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All The Pope's Men | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...much to look forward to, is it?" 1947: Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town, Chur. The groom was a Lithuanian prince-handsome Igor Troubetzkoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year. Although the cassettes can be purchased, most of the company's 30,000 subscribers rent them at $6.50 to $16.50 for 30 days, then return the copies in postpaid cartons. The most requested books: Winston Chur chill's six-volume The Second World War, (148.5 hours, 99 cassettes; $116.50), Irving Stone's The Origin (30 hours, 20 tapes; $21) and the novels of Somerset Maugham, along with such current thrillers as Triple and Free Fall in Crimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thinking Man's CB | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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