Word: preach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later, Chavis and his followers, eight of them high school students, were indicted for conspiracy and unlawful burning. "None of us had anything to do with it," Chavis told TIME'S Jay Rosenstein on the eve of the new hearing. "My role in Wilmington was to preach nonviolence...
...less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll. Bryant is fond of quoting Leviticus, which calls homosexuality an abomination. Gays respond that the singer is arbitrary about which biblical injunctions to preach. Her husband, for instance, regularly violates Leviticus' admonition against shaving. Anyway, says Gay Writer Arthur Bell: 'Leviticus is as relevant to the times as Little Women...
...plan to take a little church in Alabama, Father, preach the gospel, turn bread into flesh, forgive the sins of Buick dealers, administer communion to suburban housewives...
...formulation-to the effect that women who prefer being at home should not be discouraged or derided-will evoke debate, scorn or silence in many quarters. So Senior Editor Timothy Foote found when he brought up the subject of Marabel Morgan, whose immensely popular books and Total Woman classes preach just such ideas. When the mere mention of her name at a Long Island dinner party brought a hostile response from the women present, Foote as a journalist "found it a good sign. If people are so stirred by something that they are unable to talk about it calmly...
...Reform. It is clear that the government needs all the grassroots support it can get. To engineer this, Bangkok is relying in part on the activities of the nation's fastest-growing volunteer movement, the almost 1.5 million-member Village Scouts. Sponsored by the royal family, the scouts preach loyalty to King, country and Buddhism. Besides seeking local allies like the scouts, field commanders claim to have learned from the failures of the U.S. and the Thieu regime in Viet Nam. "If the Thai soldier is corrupt," says an army major, "then the Thais will lose the same...