Word: genuflection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other reference works, among them Be Young with Yoga, Jogging and Sexercises (which promises to refine the sexual performance of both genders). A U.S. Government pamphlet on Adult Physical Fitness has sold 750,000 copies, without benefit of advertising, since 1963. By the tens of millions, U.S. televiewers genuflect to the exercise programs of Jack LaLanne, Ed Allen and Richard and Diane Hittleman...
...gambling and insurance-claim cheating, which in turn "leads to disrespect for the law and the rights of others." The fault is not wholly the public's, Powell conceded. Equally to blame, he said, is "the tendency of government-at various levels-to apply double standards, and to genuflect to political influence and expediency...
...Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according to the original ritual of Martin Luther. The Rev. Franklin Senger of Washington's Holy Comforter Church uses plain chant at all his Sunday services; about half of his congregation genuflect. Even in denominations where Communion is still rare (such as the Congregational), ministers have restored the ecclesiastical calendar to use, preaching on themes appropriate to the seasons of Lent, Advent or Pentecost...
...have done their best to crush the Roman Catholic Church. They have seized 600 convents and monasteries and 3,000 Catholic schools. Within the ranks of the clergy, the clique of 100-odd so-called "peace priests" loyal to the regime keep up a steady propaganda, urging priests to genuflect to the Communist line. Recently the regime stepped up the pressure. The time had come, the clergy was told in a pro-regime church paper, "for every Catholic priest to consider what political and social position he would adopt in the future." Last week eleven Catholics went on trial...