Word: gird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such measures may help the Church of England gird for spiritual battle-and it must. "It's not a question of the Anglican Church's losing ground," says the Rt. Rev. Edward Ralph Wickham, Suffragan Bishop of Middleton. "We've already lost it." Of 27 million Englishmen baptized in the church, only 3,000,000 receive Communion even once a year, and cathedral deans hollowly conduct their stately services before a silent...
...that the holiday season is upon the land and men and women gird and girdle themselves for the festive round, more often than not. and more often than ever before, they are finding themselves welcomed by hostesses wearing what seem to be bathrobes. Once they might have backed away in confusion, certain they had arrived too early or too late. But the hour is right, and so, they have learned, is the hostess' dress...
...Girded Loins. After brooding for two days, Prime Minister Nehru made a broadcast denouncing China as a "powerful and unscrupulous opponent" and declaring "We must gird up our loins and face this greatest menace that "has come to us since we became independent." He announced that India would seek arms abroad, though he still seemed hesitant about directly asking for badly needed military aid from the West, since that might interfere with India's neutralist stance. Nehru pathetically harped on Red China's "lack of gratitude" for India's speedy recognition of Peking, and conceded that...
Seasickness v. Bach. To gird for the New Frontier. Romagna endlessly replayed tapes of the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates, worked up an assortment of new shorthand symbols to fit New Frontier talk. One graceful jiggle of the Romagna pen, for example, expands into 13 words...
...part of the mother but a person in its own right, and they also opposed contraception. St. Hippolytus in the 3rd century criticized Pope St. Callistus for his leniency in granting absolution to ''women, reputed believers, who began to resort to drugs for producing sterility, and to gird themselves round, so as to expel what was being conceived...