Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William E. Hill of Hopewell, Va., charged that the parent denomination is "filled with saboteurs and led by corrupt men who are perverting the Gospel." Oddly, the conservative rebels who depart will do so at a time when conservatives are winning important concessions in the church on the very issues that provoked the split. The Consultation on Church Union, whose interdenominational merger plan conservatives opposed, has been seriously weakened. A vote on an intra-Presbyterian merger with the Northern United Presbyterians has been postponed, and so has another critical vote on adopting a more liberal new confession of faith...
ATHLETES IN ACTION, a newer, more specialized group, follows the hard-sell evangelism of its parent organization, Campus Crusade for Christ. It has a staff of 200, and sponsors eleven amateur athletic teams and other special events, drawing campus crowds to hear evangelistic messages...
...Johnston goes, the Bruins will be left with only rookies John Adams and Ross Brooks to play in the nets. A possible replacement is former Bruin Bernie Parent, who recently quit as goaltender for the Philadelphia Blazers...
...turreted home to a dye-works in the depths of the slums, and leads the Oppressed Workers out into the sunshine, "because we all should be free like the birds." He throws his father's entire stock of materials out the window into the streets, explaining to his infuriated parent that "all our treaures are in heaven," oblivious to the fact that the impoverished populace he so innocently admires is making haste to grab all of the goods...
...boozer, failing to mention that he also had a brain tumor. To ingratiate herself with the bigoted Sara, she feigned anti-Semitic notions. Much later, as a columnist, she had the nerve to "picture herself as a calm, contented woman," rather than as the "detached, harried, faultfinding wife and parent we knew." To Daughter Anna she was insensitive. Not only that, but Eleanor was poor company on a camping trip...