Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family is any bargain. They seem to be collateral relatives of the Snopeses. If the bride's sister has not been made pregnant by the groom, then the deed was done by one of his 20-odd barracks mates from the military academy. Her uncle is a fundamentalist minister who got the call from God speaking through a Holiday Inn TV set. Her mother spends much of the wedding day arranging to meet an absurdly romantic uncle of the groom's in a motel across from a Dairy Queen in Tallahassee...
...same time, it is not yet clear what the longterm political implications of these latest protests will be. The challenge does not appear to be explicitly political. Rather, it originates from the Iranian community of fundamentalist Moslem clergy--socially more conservative than the Shah--who oppose several of his recent moves toward Westernization. For the time being, one can only note the irony that the first dent in the armor or this fundamentally despotic government may come in response to its attempts at liberalization. It remains to be seen, however, whether there will be room at a later stage...
...Fischer has not played at the world class level since 1972. and has most recently been in the news as a result of his involvement with the Worldwide Church of God. a California-based Fundamentalist group...
...First Church of God in tiny (pop. 6,800) Benton, Ill., has a new patron saint of sorts: Elvis Presley. The fundamentalist church's affiliation with the late rock star began last February when the Rev. Lloyd Tomer was faced with a $1 million debt from the building of his new chapel. The 500 parishioners were praying daily for the Lord to show them some way to pay their debt when, according to Tomer, God answered in the person of one Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called...
...Cities. In any case, she was from Creighton College, Neb., and she was on her first trip east, to see New York City with friends. She'd been born in Wyoming--down-home, God-fearing Wyoming--and it was only a matter of time before the rural Fundamentalist began discussing religion with me, your basic, run-of-the-mill New York liberal Jewish atheist...