Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heads. Any that refused were ostracized. When Dederich's wife Betty went on a diet in 1976, all the other members had to cut down on the vittles. That same year Dederich concluded that Synanon had too many kids. So all the men were pressured into having vasectomies, except Dederich. "I am not bound by the rules," he says. "I make them...
...movement has other converts and friends in high places. The most notable: Jimmy Carter, of course, and Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, one of the first Northern politicians to espouse Evangelical values at a time when religion, and that kind of religion particularly, was a distinct political liability except in the South...
...distinguished theologian: "Another year has passed in which the movement has registered no notable influence on the formative ideas and ideals of American culture." There is little Evangelical leverage in the great universities or communications outlets. "How often do you see a born-again Christian portrayed on TV except as some hick?" asks Philip Yancey of Youth for Christ...
...solitaire game in about 13 minutes, he reports. That is fast; still... "Let's see, there's 162 games in a regular season. And, of course, 26 teams in the two leagues ..." It works out to 57 eight-hour days of living-room baseball a year. "Except that when I play with my father, it takes longer, so it's probably more...
...comes at just the right season. Except for the principal actors and St. Luke, no one has done more to create the modern Christmas than Charles Dickens. Scrooge and Tiny Tim are almost as ubiquitous as Santa Claus. Small matter that the Times of London came to blame Dickens and his imitators for "the deluge of trash" that descended on booksellers each Christmas. Dickens' yuletide tales were hungrily awaited by hundreds of thousands; even when pressed by the demands of his novels, the author did not want to omit his annual story and thus "leave any gap at Christmas...