Word: dolley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharecroppers. Now they are scientists wearing lab coats. In the old pantheon of black leaders George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington have been joined not only by Martin Luther King Jr. but by Radical Educator W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Susan B. Anthony has replaced Dolley Madison. As for the oldest of ethnic heroes, Christopher Columbus, he is only a bit player...
...England last summer, he discussed the coin with Peter Seaby, a noted British numismatist. After examining photographs, Seaby concluded that the coin was "almost certainly a Norse penny," probably dating to the reign of Olaf III Kyrre (the Quiet), King of Norway from 1066 to 1093. British Historian Michael Dolley concurred. Said he: "To me there's no doubt, it's a Norwegian coin struck in the 1070s...
...full-length portrait of George Washington that hangs in the East Room of the White House has been viewed with suitable awe by hundreds of thousands of guests and tourists. In 1814 the picture became part of the American legendry when it was removed by the doughty Dolley Madison just before the British arrived to burn the place down. What is more, the painting is by that greatest of American portraitists, Gilbert Stuart...
Sandra Gail Dolley, 28, of Ludlow, Mass., is a practicing Roman Catholic who once taught catechism at her parish in Springfield. She was married in a Catholic ceremony in 1970-just as her husband began his Army service. By early 1972 the couple had separated. A priest advised Sandra to seek an annulment* but the local diocese decided there was not enough evidence to justify one. In January 1973 the couple got a civil divorce. Later that year, when Sandra began to think seriously about marrying again, she stopped receiving Communion because by remarrying she would automatically incur excommunication. Priests...
Stories like Sandra Dolley's-once unheard of-are becoming more frequent among U.S. Catholics. Faced with an incidence of Catholic divorce that is nearing the national average of one out of four, priests and lay people are seeking-and rinding-compassionate solutions that often clash with church law. What is more, many of them are publicly defending such departures from Catholic practice as the inevitable path that the church must take...