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...Then they started turning to the churches they hadn't paid much attention to," he said. The Episcopal Diocese did contribute $5000 to the effort, "but not without protest," Rodman said. (Although he did not disclose the extent of the debt, Luster acknowledged that the Covenant is not seeing flush times. "In our zeal and our haste we weren't as frugal as we could have been," he said...
...field, the members of this heavily wooded campus displayed a pathological zeal. Fights erupted at almost all of the 22 frats Friday night, and the attitude toward the enemy was one of open hostility. Even alumni--slightly more civil and slightly more drunk--made clear their desire to "flush the Johns," as signs all over the campus cleverly stated...
...they are. The subject was unpopular, even in disrepute. Science, or more accurately its offshoot technology, was being blamed for much that was wrong with the world: the growing despoliation of the environment, the chemical devastation of the Vietnamese countryside, the spread of nuclear weaponry. Even the first flush of excitement about landing men on the moon quickly turned into boredom after repeated video exposure of the dusty, lifeless lunar surface. Many people pressed loudly and insistently for more attention to earthly problems. NASA is still suffering budgetary blues from this outcry. Indeed, only last week the space agency...
...first flush of Iraq's attack on Iran two weeks ago, the other Arab states were rooting for an Iraqi victory, almost like so many partisan soccer fans. Once again Arab legions were marching off to war, this time not against Israel but against the Persians, who, though Muslims, are ancient foes of the Arabs. The prospect of a quick and decisive victory seemed at hand, and happy Arab throngs gathered at bazaars, coffee houses and street corners to listen to radio reports of Iraqi triumphs and cheer on their Arab brothers...
Ruddy-hued Stormy Loftus (Thomas A. Carlin) is a bustling contractor flush with building schemes. His wife Jan (Charlotte Moore) is an alabaster-pale monument to worthy causes. Stormy's best friend, Jess White (James Greene), sells wallpaper, but his wallet is bare thanks to six children, whom his wife Myra (Pauline Flanagan) counts as the blessed bounty of God. Ruggedly handsome Richard Halvey (David Canary), whose wife Trina (Swoosie Kurtz) dresses and acts half her age, has a gnawing lust in his loins for Jan Loftus...