Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa to a devout, hardscrabble farm family, he resolved early on to be a preacher. After seven years of study at Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, both in Holland, Mich., he was ordained in the Reformed Church in America in 1950. Five years later he went to Garden Grove, Calif., to set up a new ministry. Schuller's fledgling show-biz instincts led him to begin preaching from the roof of a rented drive-in theater's concession stand. Within four years he had attracted enough people and money to purchase a two- acre plot for a small church...
...best players hold abiding interest for everyone. There is endless dispute over which pitcher threw the hardest; Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson. Bob Feller, and Joe Wood are the leading candidates. Babe Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys...
...Endgame" opened on schedule at the Loeb Wenesday despite threats of legal action by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and his publisher, Barney Rosset of the Grove Press. Beckett and Rossett objected to ART's set, its use of incidental music by Philip Glass and its use of Black actors...
...partial changing of the guard comes at a time when the Court has already made some alarming about faces regarding previous rulings. East year, in the Grove City case, the Court sided with the Reagan Administration in its reinterpretation of Title IX of the Civil Right Act. The 1983 ruling decreed that only specific departments in colleges or universities discriminating on grounds of sex should lose federal funds, not the entire instillation. In what many consider to be a stinging below to affirmative action, the Court ruled in Memphis vs. Stotts that seniority look precedence over minority hiring when that...
...Benes Pacific Grove, Calif...