Word: outerness
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...outer offices, where the secretaries and receptionists reign, there also are flashes of déjà vu. The warm and graceful figure of Mary Frances Sweeney suddenly materialized in the fifth-floor hall of the Carter transition office. She used to be administrative assistant to the late Democratic Party chairman John Bailey, a fixture in the New Frontier and Great Society. Mrs. Sweeney is now helping to restart the Democratic engine. And Evelyn Irons, who went to the White House with Joe Califano in 1965 and worked for James Schlesinger through the Republican years, will journey back...
...kneeling before him and intoned: "Therefore, Father, through Jesus Christ your Son, give your Holy Spirit to Jacqueline; fill her with grace and power and make her a priest in your church." Some of the 45 priests who joined in the service clothed her in a white chasuble, the outer vestment of her new office...
Shall we send moon stations to outer space or repair our cities...
...beginning of the end comes when the star has exhausted much of the hydrogen near its core and starts to burn the hydrogen in its outer layers. This process causes the star gradually to turn red and swell to 100 times its previous size, pouring out prodigious amounts of energy. Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is such a "red giant," visible to the naked eye. When the sun undergoes a similar metamorphosis, it will envelop Mercury and Venus and vaporize the earth. By that time, 5 billion years from now, man's descendants may have found a new home...
...last convened in June, 1975 to hear the cases of six members of the DuBois Institute Student Coalition who occupied President Bok's outer office to demand an audience with him to discuss the institute's future. The six students were found guilty of violating the Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities (the CRR's charter) and had letters of reprimand placed in their University files...