Word: civic
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...astride the rail line south of Waco and not far from modern-day Fort Hood, the largest military base in the free world. Temple's churches fill on Sunday, and as the white sun climbs higher, hymns are sung and sermons spoken. Down at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Convention Center, parishioners of Temple Bible Church finish their prayers and stream out into the noonday heat, and the bright light that bears down on the town, bleaching its low buildings against the prairie...
...churchgoers file out, another kind of Sunday crowd lines up at the Civic Center ticket window. Men stand together quietly in their rough leather boots and clean work clothes; women, teen-agers and small children talk excitedly. A sign out front announces: LIVE WRESTLING...
Vellucci attributed the ordinance's delay to his "playing politics with the [Cambridge Civic Association]," a liberal group of four councilors, including Sullivan and Wolf...
Sullivan and the other three councilors in the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) teamed with self-proclaimed swing vote Alfred e. Vellucci to reject a tax plan recommended by City Manager Robert W. Healy...
With a membership of 270,000 men between the ages of 18 and 36, the Jaycees (formerly the Junior Chamber of Commerce) has often been called one of the nation's largest men's clubs. But no longer. Last week the civic organization voted to change its bylaws and offer full membership to women. The move came in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in July, which held that the large and nonselective group was equivalent to a public accommodation. Thus, the court said, the Jaycees are subject to antidiscrimination laws...