Word: churched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Kassem's would-be killer, who is well known to the police, counts among his coups the shooting of an Arab sheik who had agreed to sell land to Jews and the murder of a British official on the steps of a church in Nazareth. Barred from several Arab countries including Iraq, he reportedly slipped in from Syria as scores of other terrorists have been doing in recent months, and just as efficiently made his getaway...
...series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...
...recital of his love affairs is monotonous and reveals a mind that was superficial and almost inhuman." Casanova was all too human, and his far-from-superficial mind recorded in the Memoirs an incomparable picture of 18th century life, ranging from jail to royal court, from theater to church...
Over Cambridge, even at this height, it was possible to watch football plays in the stadium, and to see students walking in the Square. Only Widener's bulk and the graceful spire of Memorial Church broke the leafy roof of the Yard. Flying from Bedford to Cambridge and back takes only a few minutes, but it offers a delightful perspective on the University's architecture and layout--the bold patterns of Quincy and Leverett Towers, for example, and the pleasing sweep of the riverfront Houses...
...embrace one to the exclusion of others; and some held further that it was not within the function of the contemporary Harvard to take any formal stand whatsoever concerning religion. The opponents of this view contended that commitment to religion necessitated the choosing of one, that just as a church can not be treated as a "cafeteria," as one professor described it, neither can Harvard be religious, abstractly, without carrying this belief into practice through one particular religion. Supporters of this latter view feared that without an institutional example, students would cease to be concerned about religion, and become agnostic...