Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These two ex-clergymen profess affection for the church. Not so Dotson Rader, a preacher's kid who says he wrote his hate-filled book about American Evangelicals because they are so filled with hatred. Rader's grandfather Luke and great-uncle Paul were big-time revival preachers. His father, also named Paul, who still conducts meetings around the South, raised Dotson on the road and wanted his son to become a preacher too. It was the novelist's great-uncle who had the distinction of preaching at the very meeting in Los Angeles where the adolescent...
...Deals like this one give plea bargaining a bad name," fumed the morning Sun, which originally broke the scandal. Much of the public seemed to agree. The kid-gloves treatment of Carcich may hurt Burch, who is running for Governor in the Sept. 12 primary. The longer range impact will come in Washington. The Pallottines were not the only agency that used 80% or more of their gifts to cover the exorbitant costs of direct mail. Congress is now considering a new law to force charities to disclose such unhappy facts to potential contributors...
Raitt credits her Quaker family with giving her a foothold in the school of leftist pacifist protest. This background led her to work against nuclear proliferation with the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, while on leave from HarvardRadcliffe. "I've been political ever since I was a little kid, and I've been aware of the danger of nuclear power in general and what it takes to produce it since a very long time ago," she says...
Carry Back won in 1961 while Cauthen snoozed on a blanket. The kid was hoisted into the saddle at the age of two, a tiny figure dwarfed but by no means cowed by his mount. When Chateaugay ran away from Never Bend and Candy Spots in the 1963 Derby, the Cauthens' three-year-old was already a familiar figure at Churchill Downs...
...hell of a guy, but the main thing is that we'll miss that kid Sarah, the one who tugs on everybody's arm," an Adams House senior said yesterday...