Word: clergyman
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John William Burgon, a 19th century British clergyman and minor poet, wrote a memorable line when he described ancient Petra as "a rose-red city half as old as time." Romantic, inaccessible, it lies in the midst of a vast desert in southern Jordan, and today, as always, its only approach is through a deep, narrow gorge called the Siq, which tradition says was created when Moses struck the rock with his rod. From 300 B.C. to A.D. 100, when Petra flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since...
...world from Nigeria's Hogan Bassey in 1959, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in., 126 lbs.) Davey Moore liked most to boast of his boyhood reputation as the best fist-foot-knee-and-thumb fighter ever produced by Kiefer Junior High School in Springfield. Ohio. Son of a Negro clergyman, Moore was a professional of sorts by the time he was seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and scrambling for coins tossed into the ring. Officially turning pro in 1953, he seemed only a so-so boxer until 1957, when he won 14 straight fights...
...fledgling Domestic Peace Corps, just beginning to tackle the juvenile delinquency problem, now finds the Powell problem hanging around its neck like a rather weighty albatross. Because of its affiliations with the Congressman-clergyman, the Corps has been attacked in Congress, condemned by much of the press, and defended by almost...
Muggers attack in broad daylight. Churches lock their doors because, as one clergyman explains, "Too many bums come in, wander around and take what they like." Last week a purse snatcher was shot to death by a rookie patrolman; a 40-year-old man was beaten to death in his home with a leg wrenched by a couple of intruders from his end table; a bank was robbed and police pursued the bandits through the streets while passers-by scattered to escape the gunfire. All this is in Washington. D.C., the nation's capital and a city tortured...
...speak of the ubiquitous shammash (originally "servant"), who is the real factotum in every well-run synagogue or temple. I wonder if they like to be called or to call themselves "reverends" because of its similarity in sound to the real appellation of the modern-day Jewish clergyman, and thus hope to be considered as rabbis without the benefit of ordination...