Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vincent Lombardi set out to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but along the way he discovered another religion: football. To it, he brought his special brand of apostolic dedication and evangelical fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade...
...inspired partly by a number of quixotic and unorthodox experiments in social radicalism that have challenged the conservative premises of institutional Catholicism. Her own return began one day in 1967, when she found that her sons' religion class was discussing the inner meaning of the Apostles' Creed rather than the Q. and A. textbook answers of the Baltimore Catechism on which she had been raised. Listening to her children, Francine decided that they were learning nothing she could not accept. She then learned of a new tribe of radical Catholics: priests, nuns and laymen who were challenging both...
...whom this name means nothing will more easily recognize her as the Wicked Witch of the West in the famous movie The Wizard of Oz. My own most admiring recollection of her comes from seeing her play, many years ago, the leading role of the altruistic murderess Ellen Creed in Percy and Denham's Ladies in Retirement that classic of psychological suspense thrillers. It is good to see her in the flesh once again after so long an interval...
Plaster Castinq. Getting Straight would thus seem to be aimed at the silent majority, but that would be crediting it with a species of integrity; the film is out for everyone's patronage regardless of taste or creed. Suddenly arguing for the dissenters, Bailey screams at the college president: "You can't hold back the hands on the clock; they'll rip your arms...
...accurate figure is, but this gets down to seeking qualified candidates for a qualified job. There are no restrictions as to who may become a General Motors dealer. Anybody can become a GM dealer that can meet the qualifications-and these qualifications are not based on race, religion, creed, or anything else like that...