Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Erroneous Zones, Dyer (2) 3-The Dragons of Eden, Sagan (3) 4-Looking Out for #1, Ringer (6) 5-It Didn 't Start with Watergate, Lasky (5) 6-Roots, Haley (4) 7-Passages, Sheehy (7) 8-The Camera Never Blinks, Rather (9) 9-Vivien Leigh, Edwards 10-The Path Between the Seas, McCullough
...majority of the court chose to look at the matter in strictly legal terms. The Connecticut law in question, according to the majority opinion, "places no obstacles--absolute or otherwise--in the pregnant woman's path to an abortion... The indigency that may make it more difficult--and, in some cases, perhaps, impossible--for some women to have abortions is neither created nor in any way affected by the Connecticut regulation." Medicaid programs are designed expressly to insure minimum standards of health care for the poor, but the court ignored that fact completely. In effect, as dissenting Justice Harry...
...impasse. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt, who with the prime Minister headed the crisis team dealing with the terrorists, made his own appeal for understanding of the difficult decision. "I beseech you to believe there was no other way," he said at a press conference. "We tried everything-every path of dialogue that there might be, we took it, but we found them all closed...
Priest Surplus. This path of humble heroism began when Neumann graduated from seminary in Prague but could not get ordained because there was a surplus of priests. He took a boat to New York City in 1836, hoping to be a missionary even though he had no assurance that there was a job for him. German-speaking priests were in short supply in America, and Neumann was quickly ordained and dispatched as a missionary to farmers around Buffalo. He later ministered in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and many other towns...
Welty's citation says: "Her compassionately observant eye, concern for style and place sensitively reveal the humor, pathos and mystery on the worn path of our shared experience...