Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, Easter will be celebrated in all sorts and conditions of hardship by some 90,000 Christian missionaries who have turned cheerfully away from the cozy securities of the well-rooted churches to carry the Gospel where there is disease and disaster, blinding ignorance and binding poverty. Hardship is their choice, as it was Paul's-who once flung a sarcastic outburst on armchai-Christianity at the Corinthians...
...since 1949-against the Established Church-to go even farther. He wanted to make marriage to a brother-in-law or a sister-in-law legal even while the first spouse, though divorced, is still alive. Last week he tried again. Urging that his bill would eliminate the "great hardship" of perhaps 1,000 Britons presently living in "irregular unions" with in-laws, his lordship argued that "if a man cannot be forced to marry his sister-in-law, it may even encourage him to commit adultery with...
...Presbyterian (211), are fervent hymn singers and zealous doers of good works in nearby Chicago's hospitals and slums, but the lipsticked coeds and moccasined young men look as trim and handsome as those on any U.S. campus. The restrictions of Wheaton life seem to be no hardship; no more than five or ten students a year are asked to leave for breaking their pledge not to dance, drink, smoke, play cards or go to the movies...
Four Drinks. When a Bushongo family is beset by unusual hardship-perhaos a sick child, or bad crops-the head of the family calls in a diviner who, clutching the patient's hand, calls off the names of possible witches who might be responsible for the curse. If at the mention of a name the family head jerks his head, the diviner has a suspect. The local misheke then produces a poison from the powdered bark of the ihumi tree and, gathering all the villagers to drink, spikes the suspect's cup with his lethal potion. After four...
...must persuade his poverty-stricken father to help him stay. He may even face a painful ordeal at the hands of the tribal witch doctor to prove his determination. And if he actually gets through college, all his relatives descend on him for support. Yet able Africans endure any hardship to win a university degree, the highest status symbol they can imagine...