Word: garb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Huyard clan, who, like most of their Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different...
...largest in the nation. He has called on Polish parishioners in the blue-collar suburb of Cicero, conducted a prayer service in honor of the city's Hispanics, mingled with crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma may be to him, Bernardin feels called, first and foremost, to make peace in his own parishes...
...Yuri Andropov?unreconstructed Stalinist despot or pro-Western reformer? Little is known about him, and even less can be surmised from the bare facts of his career. Says Historian James Billington, director of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center: "The successor had to rise through the system, and the garb he put on for the ascent is not necessarily the garb he will wear when he is in power...
Last week Caltech, J.P.L.'s parent institution, which operates under contract with NASA, announced Murray's successor: former Air Force Chief of Staff General Lew Allen Jr., 56. The appointment continues a trend to garb the U.S. space program in Air Force blue. Earlier this year Air Force Major General James Abrahamson was put in charge of the shuttle. Former Air Force Secretary Hans Mark is NASA'S deputy administrator, the agency's No. 2 job. And the shuttle wears symbolic wings; through fiscal 1985, a fourth of its missions will be for the Air Force...
...came out of the evening shadows, amid pilgrims' candles and prayers, dressed in clerical garb and brandishing a 16-in. bayonet. Just as Pope John Paul II mounted the steps of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, carrying his own candle toward an altar outside the shrine, the black-clad figure lunged toward him. An alert Portuguese security guard swiftly wrestled the attacker into custody, but not before the man had come within a scant 3 ft. of John Paul. The Pope, indeed, was jostled as other security men pounced on the assailant, but frowning slightly...