Word: learns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race, in which he is trying to re-elect his friend Hugh Carey. Says Garth: "In my home state, I get very personally involved -and I hate to lose." His customary strategy is to demand that his candidates raise a lot of money, trim down to fighting weight, learn to concentrate on key issues, and leave the details...
...been a means of "avoiding growing up, getting married, having kids and living down the street in my small Oregon home town from everyone else. I also wanted some adventure." And for Mary Jo Kinney, attending the Army's MP school at Fort McClellan is a way to learn a trade. Says she: "I want to be a policewoman. In three years, I can get out of here and get a law enforcement...
...Catherine's monastery sits at the foot of Mount Sinai, atop which, according to biblical tradition, the Lord gave Moses the Ten Commandments. In 1946 one adventurous visitor to this Greek Orthodox abbey, which then was 100 miles from the nearest town of any consequence, was shocked to learn that the monks had not yet heard of World War II. He was even more astounded to discover that some of them had never heard of World...
...impart the apostolic blessing; an escorting prelate had to remind him to do it. At that point, John Paul II gave another glimpse of the warmth and humanity that helped win him the election. His face crinkling in a smile, he said, "I guess even a Pope has to learn his trade." Later that night he telephoned an old priest friend in Poland, to whom he confessed: "I call because I feel a little alone. Without you I am a little...
...clerics. He is a lover of music?Bach, Poland's Henry Wieniawski and folk songs being favorites. A New Hampshire woman remembers that she once broke her leg while skiing in Poland and was serenaded in the nearby hospital by a group of fellow skiers; only later did she learn that the guitarist was Bishop Wojtyla. On retreats, he often takes the guitar along and sings late at night with fellow priests...