Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene is made all the more poignant since we have been seeing what he does put his faith in. He is a potent tippler of sparkling burgundy and relishes his Mercedes. With Gaelic guile he manipulates parish politics from his pulpit. He does not so much preach to his flock as poll it. What his parishioners want to hear, he tells them. He salves the consciences he was pledged to arouse. In the sad coldness of his heart, he knows all this...
Verily the Rev. Robert H. Schuller has journeyed far from the California drive-in theater where he founded the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955. Four years did he sojourn there, and the cars in his flock did wax and grow, and so he later moved to a larger church with a bigger parking lot costing $3 million. But still did his ministry prosper, faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass...
Some of Runcie's African flock are not entirely pleased about the Pope. Nairobi's Canon Kenneth Stovold has publicly complained that the Pope's attacks on birth control in Africa would spoil in tensive efforts to hold down the tremendous population increases on the continent. Colin Winter, the exiled bishop of Namibia (South West Africa) divides all Christians into the "church of the oppressor and the church of the oppressed." Says Winter sourly: "I don't think a Polish Pope can understand Africa. His attitudes are extremely reactionary. His hangup is Communism, Communism...
...Pitching IP H R ER BB SO Larson (W. 1-1) 7 5 0 0 1 2 Allen (L. 0-1) 4 6 5 5 5 1 Flock 1/3 0 5 3 4 0 Piscina...
...opener, the Crimson turned six fifth-inning walks into seven runs to lead Carson over the Lions. Behind 3-0 after four innings, Columbia twirler Mike Allen dealt three passes to Bingham and Farrell to open the fifth, and departed in favor of freshman Robert Flock. The reliever faced six batters, walking four, hitting one and allowing Joe Wark to loft a sacrifice fly to drive in another run, before taking leave down...