Word: outing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lewis started out an atheist-one reason his approach to religion appeals to outsiders. After years of struggle he "admitted that God was God" and knelt to pray one night, "perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." At that point, two years before the Whipsnade Zoo outing, he was a theist but not yet a Christian. Prodded by friends, including a fellow Oxford don, Author (Lord of the Rings) J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis subsequently decided that the Christ story is a myth like other great myths, but with the "tremendous difference that it really happened...
...abandoned her, moving in with another woman. But, Mrs. Patri claims, he threatened to kidnap their two daughters or kill her, so she ordered a 12-gauge shotgun last February from a local store. A month later, when Patri arrived to take the girls on a day's outing, only Jennifer was waiting-with the loaded shotgun near by. "I was anticipating trouble," she admits. During an argument, she shot him in the back and head, buried his body in an adjacent smokehouse and later set her house on fire...
...Spielberg the film is a culmination of fantasies he has been nurturing since childhood. Always fascinated by UFOs, he still regrets missing a scout troop outing at which his friends claimed to have seen a blood-red orb looming in space. Firelight, a 2½-hr. amateur effort he made at 16, dealt with an invasion of monsters from another planet...
...Harvard Outing Club...
...shutout, her second of the season. Harvard fullbacks Sarah Fischer, Dian Smith and Natalie Roe smothered the potent UVm attack which had chalked up six wins (against only one loss and a tie) prior to yesterday's contest, including a 10-0 shellacking of UNH in their last outing...