Word: nave
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PAST EFFORTS to change the ideological stance of the Supreme Courts subtle or overt, nave yielded mixed results. Just prior to the election, Justice William Rehnornst stated that attempts to find predictable justices have more often than not, backfired. The most famous recent example of a judge coming out of the after appointment was former Chief Justice Earl Warren. An Eisenhower appointee. Warren led the most liberal Court in history as it upheld the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and established many of the laws regarding prisoners rights that are currently in eclipse...
...January, the grieving couple arrived at St. Michael's Church in Olympia, Wash., to bury their only son. He had died at 37, leaving a wife and two young children. The parents' first anxiety developed even before the funeral Mass began: many of the worshipers entered the nave with cries of joy, and the celebrant, Father Paul Dalton, was clad in festive mod vestments. The rite began like a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, as worshipers were urged to introduce themselves. In his homily, Dalton reported that as the husband lay dying, it was the wife, not the priest...
...voice of the organ echoes down the mighty Gothic nave as the congregation rises to sing the Doxology...
...number of foreign bishops, in El Salvador to attend the funeral, carried Romero's coffin out of harm's way into the cathedral, where it was sealed into a crypt in the east nave. The crowd huddled inside the church for more than an hour, well after the shooting stopped. Then clergymen, mothers with infants and terrified nuns emerged slowly in single file, with their hands on their heads as a precautionary signal to possible snipers...
...seemed a splendid start for his first U.S. tour, which will take him to 22 cities in seven weeks. Though there was little advance publicity, the nave of St. Patrick's was filled to overflowing with a crowd in which young people were heavily represented. In the U.S. many people 30 and younger are drawn to Oriental religions that explore inner spiritual resources through meditative techniques. The Dalai Lama says he is particularly interested in meeting this "younger generation," and he plans to do some gentle evangelizing at campuses from Cambridge to Charlottesville to Ann Arbor to Berkeley...