Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year in a prisoner exchange. Says Dukhonchenko: "Georgi Vins said it was impossible to evangelize, but the churches function freely and can preach the Gospel. We baptize publicly, in open water." But to reform Baptists like Vins, evangelism means freedom to preach outside church walls and, especially, to instruct children in the faith...
...team has no coach but appoints captains to instruct team members. "Everybody gets in a game. We switch them in at the half and no coach can claim that," explained Schember...
...ever get the urge after reading some hotheaded statement made in the United States to reach for a pencil and paper, I will use my other hand to restrain the first one. If I should ever be tempted to dictate a sharp response into a tape recorder, I will instruct my staff to make sure the tape recorder breaks down. If I should ever feel the urge to call in a stenographer to dictate a sharp response, I will arrange to have the lady not feel too well that...
Fiction, history and psychology to provoke, instruct and entertain...
...five months, reporters for the paper had clandestinely operated a Chicago bar called the Mirage tavern, gathering notes on building and fire inspectors as they asked for illegal side payments. Street-wise in a machine-dominated city, Editor James Hoge had lawyers meticulously instruct his reporters in how to avoid committing entrapment. In the past, such Front Page-style enterprise has consistently won Pulitzers. As deception, it is not all that different from the confrontation theater that often gives CBS's 60 Minutes its liveliest episodes...