Word: peals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic known in Congressional cloakrooms as "Archbishop," came out for parochial school loans. (Montana's Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader and also a Catholic, carefully stayed neutral, told newsmen with a worried smile: "I'm just waiting for the Bells of St. Mary's to peal.") The 99 Catholic Congressmen (twelve in the Senate, 87 in the House), as well as Protestants from heavily Catholic districts, eyed a growing pile of mail in favor of the bishops' stand. Organization was showing through. Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a Minnesota Catholic in favor of the loans, reported...
...florid-faced six-footer with crew-cut silver hair and bushy eyebrows, Riou rises with the predawn peal of his chapel bells, works a 17-hour day. He finds time to preach an hour-long sermon in Creole each Sunday. "Here all goes well," he wrote a friend recently. "Patients, as usual, are numerous." To Haitians, Father Riou is a "bon blanc"-good white...
...student-faculty group urging re-peal of the disclaimer affadavit of the National Defense Education Act will distribute the cards at the dining halls today, to all students interested in writing their Congressmen...