Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Behind the current resurgence of balloting on issues is a post-Watergate distrust of elected officials and a growing impatience with state legislatures, which the constituents often feel are lead-footed and overly cautious. Says Robert Hughes, a G.O.P. chairman in the Cleveland area: "People are saying, 'By God, the power is vested in the people, and if the elected officials won't respond to what the people want, then we'll do something about it.' " Many politicians are delighted about the trend, though for a less-than-lofty reason. If an issue is unpopular, putting...
...last week, lagging ticket sales perked up; she played to a full house of 2,000, and 200 people were turned away. She acknowledges that the fight has hyped sales of her eighth book, The Anita Bryant Story, in which she stresses, in evangelical terms, her personal relationship with God. She also writes: "I don't hate homosexuals. I pray for them...
...fallen on Toccoa ("beautiful place" in the Cherokee language). The swollen, 50-acre-wide lake at the head of the valley burst the earthen dam, which had been built in 1901 and enlarged in 1937. Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on high ground and was spared: "I believe God took home the people he wanted to take home. They were all born-again believers. This is a victory for them." College President Kenn Opperman called the disaster "an obstacle we are going to convert into a steppingstone. This is a privilege . . . a beginning...
...forsworn for lengthy sermons of a dominee at the local church. The Afrikaner can, and usually does, treat his black workers with kindness. Yet there is never a sense that the black is, or even could be, his equal; in the common view, the black is a child of God who needs to be guided to civilization by the one who knows the way?the Afrikaner...
Clearly, Mr. Nichols' fear that the H-R Republicans, the Spartacists, and God knows who else would soon appear on the term bill and "extort" money is unfounded. Majority support (by petition) for the checkoff must be demonstrated; and then, one chooses whether to contribute. It is worthy to note that no other campus organization in any state has sustained this funding mechanism, which has built in "sunset" provisions...