Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not want to be thought of as leaving the church simoly because it is declining at an accelerating rate, or on a petty, personal ground-Bishop Myers' changing his mind about officiating (after telling us to invite the clergy who would assist him), when a fine priest, and a dear friend, was perfectly happy to marry us, acting under Bishop Myers' written judgment as to my canonical marriageability. We had sound reasons for leaving the church, but they are not the two you noted; nor would we want others to leave on such grounds...
...Willie. If you are an average young man, you lived the first 18 years of your life in a house dominated by your mother. Probably fairly soon after graduation, you will start living for 30 to 50 years in a house dominated by your wife-and that's fine too, in due course...
...premeditation is involved. The law allows officers to cordon off any area, prohibit the sale of guns or alcohol, impose curfews, and enter private dwellings when in fresh pursuit of a rioter or when searching for firearms or explosives. Violation of any orders under the law can mean a fine of $500, six months in jail, or both...
...single hair activates not one nerve fiber but many. Any one fiber, it appears, may be sensitive to more than one kind of painful stimulus. The fibers are not all alike but fall into two main classes, some that are microscopically thin and others that are relatively thick. The fine-fiber circuits can actuate the heavy-fiber circuits, which may reinforce or prolong the sensation of pain. So charting the pathways of pain-from the surface pinprick through the relays of the nervous system to parts of the brain where it is perceived and interpreted, perhaps with emotional overtones...
...pawn off his old furniture on me. And when the first interview had been set up, he cancelled it in order to take a bartending job that afternoon and leave this university out of hock. Ken Glazier, former chairman of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, had never learned the fine points on the Harvard student-politico game...