Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve. He earned a Purple Heart as a ski trooper in World War II and graduated from New York's City College before becoming a Reform rabbi. Since 1973 he has been president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for 750 Reform temples that count a membership...
Dialogue from a grade-B Mob movie? No, it is the tape-recorded musing of Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
...again. And I looked at the little one and said, 'Shame on you.' I saw death and I was dead, and I started to call the Lord. I was thinking to myself, 'What a nightmare, oh, what a nightmare!' " A nightmare shared by innumerable others who cannot count on the basic minimum of a supposedly civilized society: personal safety. Says Jim Wilson, a black homicide detective in Harlem: "Anybody should be able to go out on the streets any time he wants...
...enlist is almost irresistible. Rico, 17, joined a Puerto Rican gang in Chicago for "protection, man, protection. I was a skinny little kid, and I was tired of having hassles. You don't last long if you don't belong to a club. You can always count on having someone stand up for you." A 14-year-old boy who committed frequent robberies in Central Falls, R.I., and once smashed 350 windowpanes in a factory says he was lured into crime because "I felt out of place. If you stand around when the other kids are doing that...
Jewish authorities hold that a Jew who adopts Christianity - or any other religion - is a meshummad (apostate), a grievous sinner who incurs various penalties. He may not be a witness in a Jewish legal proceeding or count in the minyan, or quorum for prayer. He remains technically a Jew, however, since the Talmud says that "a Jew who sins is still...