Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definitely strings." He even imagines himself angrily taking his case for male pregnancy to God, a bureaucrat behind a desk in the Revised Hoffman Version. " 'I don't understand,' I pipe up. 'Why don't I get to carry it?' " God tries to explain, but when Hoffman continues to complain, God brusquely ends the conversation: "I don't want to talk about it. I've spent a lot of time on this." When his own child Jenna was born, Hoffman did what little he could to make up for such obvious discrimination...
From this sophisticated state point of view, seminaries can be useful-if properly supervised. That may explain why the Soviet Baptists are supposed to get a seminary soon, their first since 1928.' The Baptist faith, the main Protestant group, was often persecuted by the Czars because of Orthodox dominance so that when Lenin suppressed Orthodoxy after the Revolution, he was at first lenient with Baptists. But since the late 1920s Baptists have not fared well. They number 200,000 in the Ukraine, about half the official total in the U.S.S.R...
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...widely-held theory to explain Silber's combativeness is that he is out to prove himself. Silber's right arm ends in a knob at his elbow--the result of a birth defect--and some say he is still revenging himself upon the school children who taunted him as a child...
Until now, no one has attempted to explain why Clover killed herself. Adams never writes about his wife in his autobiography. From outward appearances, theirs was a childless union of matched temperaments enjoying similar tastes, opinions and well-bred friends in Boston, Washington and London. Friedrich fills that gap with a fresh supply of letters, observations and a perceptive linkage of occurrences that could have turned Clover's basic melancholia into self-destruction...