Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to be exclusively male; women should be admitted to ordination." The very title "priest" should be dropped, Küng says, "since, according to the New Testament view, all believers are 'priests.' " Thus he prefers the more functional names of the New Testament like presbyter, elder and overseer, or simply the generic title "leader" or "presider," denoting one elected to preach the word and preside at the community's sacramental experiences: baptism and the Eucharist...
Thomas Francis Eagleton has never been anything but exuberant about politics. His father, the late Mark Eagleton, made certain of that. A prominent St. Louis attorney who once ran unsuccessfully for mayor, the elder Eagleton invested his political ambitions in his younger son. The indoctrination was early and intensive. Tom Eagleton's first exposure to national politics came in 1940 when he accompanied his father to the Republican Convention...
...that post he will help develop policies and projects for the future of all the company's divisions, in several of which he has served. The elder son of TIME'S cofounder, Hank Luce was already a graduate of the wartime Navy, Yale, the staff of the first Hoover Commission and a police reporter's beat in Cleveland when he came to the magazine in 1951. He worked as a Washington correspondent and national affairs writer before he took on the job of supervising the planning and construction of our present headquarters, the Time-Life Building...
...preparatory step to the Conference on European Security. Owing to the growth of Soviet seapower, Yugoslavia is strategically far more important than ever to Moscow, which wants a naval base on the Adriatic for its warships in the Mediterranean. The Soviets also seek to reassert their former "elder brother" status in Yugoslavia so that they will have a direct influence in the maneuvering that is bound to follow Tito's death or retirement...
...Allan's new ability to express his thoughts, the elder Schenkein says: "He loves it. It is another pleasure that he has in life...