Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle in which 2,000 of the Disciples' 8,000 churches broke away. Many of the dissident congregations affiliated with the conservative Churches of Christ, which separated from the more liberal Disciples at the turn of the century. Among other things, the dispute involved the question of whether organ music in church had scriptural justification (the Disciples said...
...proceeding on the logic of the saint, as if the first desire of the ONE devil might be to make you the instrument of your own will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint of emphasis, his offhand delivery which would insist that remarks about the future of the world were best delivered in the tone you - might employ for buying...
Then there is the story of the church congregation that installs a computerized organ, which plays by punch card and robs the organist of his job. Man gets even with machine by feeding the organ a card punched with all the hymns at once. The result is a deafening rattle that all but shakes the church to ruins...
...vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which could have coordinated the peace and war efforts, the Vietnam Working Group at the Vietnam desk of the State Department, had become by this time little more than a propaganda organ which sent its members around the country defending Administration policy...
Different Shapes. The target of all medications that suppress organ rejections is what the experts call "the transplant antigens," protein molecules that are too small to be seen even with the electron microscope. Apparently they sit on the outside of the body's cells, ready to trigger an antibody reaction and rejection phenomenon if the cells are transplanted, as part of a kidney or heart, into another person...