Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roared into the fold on his own unrepentant terms. He will sit on the A.F. of L. executive council (with the hilarious title of 13th vice president). His daughter Kathryn's catch-all District 50, the most vertical union in the world, fresh from a new conquest of some 1,000 former Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen members on the Long Island Railroad, will have full membership-A.F. of L.'s craft-union tradition notwithstanding...
Says Director Johnson: "Youth for Christ has a two-fold purpose. First, the spiritual revitalization of America, which will bring America back to God, the Bible and the Church. Second, the complete evangelization of the world in our generation...
...glad to get off the train at Regina, despite the sub-zero weather. George W. (for Woodall) Cadbury's 6 feet 5 inches fold uneasily into a sleeping-car berth. After a good night stretched diagonally across two Hotel Saskatchewan beds, he was in fine humor as he talked to newsmen about the job which had brought him all the way from England...
...front-office fight with the newly created and rival All-America Conference. Last week, the All-Americas considered New Orleans for a tenth city on their coast-to-coast circuit, admitted giving ex-National Leaguer (and part-owner of Yankee Stadium) Dan Topping $100,000 to join their fold, promised to raid National League player rosters...
...week by Pope Pius XII. With the same prayer the Council of Trent in 1563 had closed its 18-year deliberations to combat the schism born of Martin Luther's theses nailed to the church door at Wittenberg. The Council failed to bring Protestant heretics back to the fold...