Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live in housing units holding 50 students, upperclassmen in groups of about 250. The housing units would largely shape and enforce their own social regulations. A central student congress would have almost a free hand to gov ern student activities and suggest changes in any university-wide policy. The power relationship between the student congress, the faculty senate and the administration would all be spelled out in a university constitution-a relatively simple notion that few major campuses have attempted to carry...
...four hours. "When the ecstasy of the Lord is upon you and you take up serpents," explains Mullins, "you have no fear. You got to believe this yourself. If you move too fast sometimes, or too slow, you'll get bit. But if you are under the anointing power of God, the serpent won't hurt...
Amputations and Death. Of course, God does not always provide his anointing power. Mullins' right hand was amputated in 1953 after he was bitten by a rattler, and some church experts estimate that there may be as many as 75 snakebites a year as a result of the services. Nonetheless, the snake handlers' faith remains unshaken. They argue, in fact, that the deaths are simply God's way of answering detractors who accuse the sects of using defanged serpents. As for the late Oscar Pelfrey, says Mullins, "he died 100% in his faith." Why, then...
...down to about $13. After reeling off a series of sad statistics to his stockholders, Cole announced that he would yield his presidency to a younger executive, move into the chairmanship-and give up his yearly salary "as a gesture and an attempt to do everything within my power to turn this company around...
...Trout, Bowen's eighth novel, is typical of her writing and unlike anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money...