Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priesthood and the religious orders. The competing theory, heard increasingly in the Vatican, is that churches that cater to contemporary notions in order to maintain church membership do not prosper. The decline of many liberalizing American Protestant churches seems to bear out that view. The biblical example of Gideon, who chose to fight with an army of 300 dedicated men rather than 22,000 fainthearts, seems to apply as well. If a tough policy on celibacy and against freeing priests from their vows means fewer priests, says one Vatican source, then "they are likely to be better priests...
Hilton had an ego as big as his chain, and he kept the vanity press busy printing books praising himself; his folksy upbeat autobiography, Be My Guest, is in every one of the company's 64,000 hotel rooms, right next to the Gideon Bible. He lived regally in a 61-room mansion named Casa Encantata in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, where 19 servants filled his every need, including buying his clothes. Yet Hilton retained an almost childlike wonder at the world around him. He also had some simple tastes, preferring corned beef hash or pork...
...living with. A woman from Dallas took her PossLQ home for the weekend recently to meet her parents. Her mother usually came to the door to meet her, but not this time. Her father squared himself in the front hall like an immense stack of Gideon Bibles and announced: "That's your room there. That's your room there." Then the mother came on like a p.a. system: "NO HANKY-PANKY IN THIS HOUSE...
...Sherman '79, George Velez '80. ELIOT--David Lakhdir '80, John Ordway '79, John Ramig '80, Jerry Rappaport '80, Douglas Tweedale '80. KIRKLAND--Mark Anderson '79, Pat Fischer '80, Lorraine Hayes '79, John Kopchik '80, Tim Sellers '80. LEVERETT--Mike Calabrese '79, Nick Christakos '79, Jane Fayer '80, Gideon gil '79, Carl Rosen '80, Jay Yeager '79. LOWELL--Laura Besvinick '80, Linda Bilmes '80, Jim Deutsch '80, Peter Fleischer '80, Fred Haber '79, Jeff Wills '80. MATHER--Sarah Carpenter '81, John Gilbert '80, Maxine Pfeffer '81, Libby Pierpont '81, Elisabeth Rozen '81, Robert (Skip) Stern '81. NORTH HOUSE--Alexander...
Crimson: "Wait a minute, I think you must have me confused with my twin brother Gideon...