Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oddest stuff was yet to come. Consider, for example, a third quarter in which the Harvard offense ran off just seven plays for no first downs. But Penn failed to score, owing mainly to penalties and poor execution despite their dominance in possession time...
...flesh or the confusion of friends' palates. "I have come to the realization," the bishop mildly explains, "that the most important thing I can do in the church, and that applies to Christians in general, is to live simply in order to give money to the poor. If you don't buy any clothes for years, that saves a lot of money...
...after Vatican II emphasized the need for the Catholic Church to bear witness to poverty and downplay priestly perquisites, trappings and titles generally, Bishop Topel during a prayer retreat "suddenly got the conviction that God wanted me to move into a smaller house. I wanted to live like the poor, and that's the way it's been ever since." He even manages to turn over to the needy some money from his Social Security check...
...other trait: a capacity to cause problems for the 26-member OAS, which they all plan to join. Each will receive a vote equal to that of the U.S., Mexico and Brazil. Joining such other former British colonies as Jamaica and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the poor little paradises of the Caribbean could form a bloc with as many votes as all of South America...
Inevitably, the project came under fire, especially during the later years of construction. A religious journal complained that "a pilgrim church cannot spend its time, thought and money on monumental buildings." An anonymous critic painted on an outside wall: "Christ was poor and homeless. Two-thirds of humanity starve...