Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemonade Lucy" was the sobriquet applied to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, member of the W.C.T.U., for refusing to serve liquor at White House affairs. Will Mrs. Nixon be dubbed "Punch-Bowl Pat" for serving church-social punch...
...Farmer received a B.S. in chemistry from Wiley College. Seemingly a natural for the pulpit (he had won a $1,000 prize for oratory), Farmer got a divinity degree from Howard University but was never ordained. He was repelled by the then segregationist policies of the Methodist Church, which inevitably led him into the infant civil rights movement. For the next 28 years, he dedicated himself to the black revolution...
...menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom of the time, by wearing a white sheet at the door of the church. Legend has it that Parr remarried at the age of 120 and had children by his second wife. Teb Sharmat, a lively farmer in the Caucasus, took a third wife-who was 50-when he was in his 90s. He explained that he did not want...
...including a coffee house, an art gallery, a poetry corner, and a 16 mm. film showcase. At the center of the plan: a 300-seat theatre, stocked with lots of multimedia gadgets. In an area where small groups like The Proposition and the Caravan Theatre operate in garages or church basements, and where even resident professional companies like the Charles Playhouse are forced into cramped, patchwork constructions, The Light Company's spacious, well equipped auditorium is an unique luxury. All Leven needed was a hit show and he would be well on his way to filling in the remaining parts...
There were other things to hold on to. Friends? They change and leave you. Family? Falling apart. Church? School? Government? Society? All empty shells. Love? Yes, love's not time's fool; but when your lover leaves, you are as lonely and as empty as before. What else it there...