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Word: pews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tears well up in Joy's eyes as she stands at the pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: David, West Virginia | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...based in Atlanta, has initially received a total of $1.75 million from the BellSouth Foundation in Atlanta and the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia to implement the effort that emphasizes academic skills and teacher recruitment, Kinnick said. SEF officials hope to rasie the rest of the funds later...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Harvard Aids in Search For Black Teachers | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

JESSE'S schedulers were panicking in the pew across from Earl Hendricks. If Jesse got going too good, they had a special sign to cut him off at the appropriate time, and they knew it would mean nothing if the candidate couldn't see the time. Jesse lived in slow time--preacher time, that is, and he would naturally assume at the given time that he had a few more minutes to speak, even as the sign flashed from the nervous front...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: That No-Time Jackson Religion | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...these back-pew analyses depended in part upon who wrote the incendiary essay. Suspicions quickly narrowed to a handful of clerics with the requisite conservative opinions and insider's knowledge. Bennett fit perfectly. He was an ally of London's Bishop Graham Leonard, a champion of the Anglo-Catholics, and served on two powerful panels that set the General Synod agenda and nominated bishops. Bennett, who was known for his probity, vociferously denied he was the writer. But after his death the two lay officials who assigned the author admitted that they had selected Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death and The Archbishop | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Unlike most grant programs, the Pew requires that the 75 eligible institutionsform clusters, Girgus said. The collaborativemethod is designed to bring schools with differentstrengths together, she said...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Harvard Vies for Science Grant | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

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