Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...license for the Plymouth plant in the Federal Register. If there is to be a public hearing a valid request must be filed within thirty days of the appearance of the notice. Therefore, unless some action is taken before May 23, the right to a public hearing on the Pilgrim Nuclear Station will be lost by default...
Hearings should be requested so that basic questions about the Pilgrim nuclear power plant's safety and emission controls might be asked and satisfactory fly answered before the station be allowed to operate. The key safety device presently missing at the Yankee power station in Vernon. Vermont, is, I am assured by a call to the Boston Edison Company, present in the Plymouth reactor. This does not mean, however, that all cause for concern ceases. A common characteristic of the two plants, for example, is that they are both boiling water reactors. This type of reactor (pressurized water reactors...
...templar." Writes Bell: "Certain of a true cause, possessed of the moral justification for the use of force, intimate with the long tradition of the struggle, comfortable in the company of proud men, an I.R.A. volunteer often lives a life not so much of denial as dedication, a laic pilgrim on the road to the Republic, a knight templar justified in the use of his sword. This atmosphere of sanctity and violence is alien to the Saxon world...
...wait until he was 21-or longer, if he happened to be pale-complexioned. Those stalwarts who managed to abstain until they were 27 were to be paid homage at a public gathering, where hymns were sung in their honor. In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the voyager Christian can reach the Celestial City-which 17th century artists sometimes pictured as a snugly fortified medieval town-only by conquering the fleshly temptations celebrated by today's turned-on idealists. Sidestepping sleepy-eyed Sloth and Presumption, Christian gains Utopia, or Paradise, by following the directions...
...band of dedicated followers, who were officially recognized by the Vatican in 1950 as a new religious community. In 1952, the Missionaries of Charity -dressed in simple white, blue-bordered saris-won permission from Calcutta's authorities to set up a home for the dying destitute in a pilgrim hostel at the gate of a temple of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction...