Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that students shy away from the open convert seeker or "the guy who wants to gimmick around with your life." "Our job is people," says the Rev. Harold Cooper, one of the Protestant chaplains at the University of Massachusetts, "and the idea is not to bring them into the fold but to help them live better lives as persons." Most chaplains today shun even such an old-fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized ecumenically by team ministers of different faiths, rarely stress their...
...Similarly, Kashmir is of national interest to Indians, who believe that its loss would put in jeopardy hundreds of other princely states and consequently imperil India's tenuous union itself. It is also of national interest to Moslem Pakistan that Kashmir (80% Moslem itself) be taken into the fold of political Islam...
Word of that powerful happening mightily multiplied the fold. Moving to Harlem at the depth of the Depression, Father Divine used the alms of his flock to support countless missions that offered generous meals for 150 and immaculate rooms for $2 a week, organized a chain of employment agencies to provide jobs and Divine guidance for the needy. Said a white social worker in Harlem during those years: "Father Divine rendered an inestimable service, and he did it with genuine goodness...
...with him or with me?" she cried. The printers stood mute. With tears in her eyes, Publisher Schiff turned away, and minutes later ordered the Post shut down until further notice. That night, she declared that unless the union backed down, she would either sell the paper "or fold it forever if nobody wants...
...good." Proving him wrong, David left MGM, became a $104,000-a-year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that Son-in-Law Selznick, unlike other members of the Mayer clan, "had never requested my assistance...