Word: preach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, there have been few team meetings ("Harvard kids aren't the kind you can preach to," the curly-haired Abbott says), and there have been few loud rampages from the Crimson captain...
...outlines the importance of women in the Quaker movement by focusing on the amazing exploits of a few pioneers. Elizabeth Hooton traveled from England to preach in Cambridge, Mass., where the "college boys...mocked and pelted her." She was placed in a dungeon and left without food for two days before being sentenced to whippings through three towns and expulsion from the colony. Mary Fisher and Elizabeth Williams were to face the same hostility in Cambridge. When asked by the mayor for their husbands' names, the Quakers replied that "they had no husband but Jesus Christ." The mayor promptly "denounced...
...Republicans have many intangibles going their way. Times are good. The people like Reagan the man. Last week, as the sun set slowly in a cloudless sky, some 40,000 turned out in Gulfport, Miss., to watch Reagan preach the politics of happiness...
...Administration justifies its own terrorism mainly by arguing that the Nicaraguan regime, because of its quasi-totalitarian nature, is illegitamate and a threat to our security. But if we are to preach the principle of national self-determination and the need to ensure civilized behavior, we cannot do it arbitrarily. We cannot mine harbors in one section of the world because we dislike one nation's regime, and then express outrage when our embassies are bombed in a different regime someone else happens to dislike...
...subtle statement decrying industrial exploitation of the defenseless Indians--causes Angels Fall to lose the impact of its message. By the second act, these self-professed disinterested individuals have become interested enough in one another to begin lecturing them. When Father Dougherty tells the cast, "I think I will preach a sermon tonight," the audiences' worst fears are confirmed...