Word: parishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Down 12-0, Dartmouth finally got on the board when leading scorer Judy Parish fired an overhand shovel shot, narrowly beating Leary. And though the junior goalie did lose her shutout, her performance on the afternoon was nothing short of amazing. On two occasions, Leary wowed the crowd with breathtaking saves...
...first was a diving block of a shot followed by another dive to save a rebound attempt. The second was a stuff off of a point-blank shot fired by Parish, who shook her head in disbelief as she watched the ball ricochet back onto the playing field. Even Andy Moog would have been impressed...
...soon nobody is laughing. Rumors about the ambulatory statue spread, and a local sensation quickly mesmerizes the nation. Feeling, quite correctly, threatened by all this talk, the Communists charge the parish priest with rigging the miracle to trick the faithful and discredit the ruling authorities. A more sophisticated conspiracy theory has the Communist Party plotting and executing the phenomenon so as to expose the church to ridicule, as well as charges of treason against the state. And there is a third possible interpretation: that the hand of God actually reached down into that obscure church to point muddled humans...
Morales is charged with allowing the game's operators to use first St. Mark's parish in Gary, then Nativity of Our Savior in Portage, as a front to avoid the scrutiny of local authorities. Flyers went out to four states advertising the high-pot Nativity bingo...
...Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, whose parish is located in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, declared, "If George Bush wants to set deadlines, he could set deadlines on unemployment, apartheid, homelessness. He has been hell-bound for months on war. I have never heard a President talk so much war talk in my lifetime." During Vietnam, American labor unions and blue-collar workers tended to support the war. This time, the presidents of * nine major unions argued for a peaceful solution...