Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he wants is "freedom to find God without arrogant priests telling me I can't." More theologically, Davis proposes a state of "creative disaffiliation"- meaning committing oneself to Christ and Christian values but standing apart from any specific church. Both ex-priests intend to follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis is now a $16,000-a-year Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada...
Though Cushing had previously remained mute on the Inner Belt, he said he had, in Nov., 1964, ordered the Rev. Paul J. McManus, whose church was located near the Belt's path, to organize opposition against the highway. (McManus led the Belt foes to Washington last...
...tour of refugee centers, estimated that the war has left nearly 2,000,000 South Vietnamese homeless. Some are North Vietnamese looking for a better life in the South. Many lowland peasants and mountain people flee their villages to escape Viet Cong control or because they are in the path of combat operations. Others are forced to move from battle areas by the government. Nearly half are children. Plowing into AID-staffed centers at the rate of 38,000 a month, the refugees are turning to gang warfare and prostitution. A General Accounting Office report released at the hearings claimed...
...summer of 1831, a force of 60 Negroes led by a mad, messianic slave named Nat Turner cut a red swath through the Virginia Tidewater country, slaughtering every white man, woman and child in their path. Although it was suppressed in two days, the rebellion claimed 55 victims. Its leader died on the gallows with 16 of his men. His body was flayed and the flesh rendered into grease; some souvenir-minded Virginian sliced a money purse out of the skin...
...campuses and evoked dreams of Main Street, U.S.A., are fading-the victims of Dutch elm disease. Caused by a fungus and carried by bark beetles, the incurable blight was first detected in the U.S. in 1930 and has since spread inexorably across the nation, leaving unsightly stumps in its path. Although most American elms seem doomed, there is now hope that a hardy new breed of elm will rise to take their place...