Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bible, and that "investigative judgment" undercut the whole basis of Protestantism: belief in salvation by God's grace apart from good works. This prompted the founding of a dissident bimonthly, Evangelica, based in Napa, Calif. Before long, the church forced the resignation or expulsion, by one count, of 120 Adventist clergy and teachers. Ford was defrocked...
Lieut. Richard Sandberg, 45, was put in charge of the probe, and with Chandler staked out a South Side tavern called the count, the cops cut deals on Wednesday nights. From their unmarked brown van, the investigators watched police drug sale after police drug sale and plenty of sampling. "There they were, not 10 ft. away," recalls Sandberg, still incredulous, "just dipping into the vial and snorting away." Brazen, but not incriminating enough. Sandberg insisted on getting tape recordings of the transactions...
...military rule last week, there were signs in Warsaw that some easing of martial law might be on the way. Rumors spread that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski planned, among other steps, to release all but 600 of the 2,300 prisoners still held, according to official count, in detention camps. At week's end the Communist Party hierarchy was reshuffled in the first major shake-up since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. The main victim was hard-line Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, who lost his key position as the Central Committee secretary in charge...
...million). President Reagan told Suazo Cordova that he hoped to give Honduras $17 million in supplementary military aid this year. After embracing Suazo Córdova warmly, Reagan declared that "the people of Honduras should be able to rely on their friends for help. And they can count...
...magnificently magenta; it glowers over the forest with flashing threats of lightning. You could count the night stars, the fireflies, the dewdrops, the hairs on a lady mouse's arm. The wisest, oldest owl peers omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save...