Word: preach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...espoused a form of it himself," said Ellen Carton, executive director of the New York State branch of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The Cardinal offered an answer as he gave the benediction for the interrupted Mass at St. Patrick's. Said O'Connor: "I must preach what the church preaches, teach what the church teaches...
Holtz also possesses the ability to make young people believe in themselves. His sharply honed self-deprecation is designed in part to demonstrate to his players that if a 98-lb. weakling like him can succeed, surely they can. Holtz likes to tell his coaches, "If you preach something long enough, people are going to believe it. Especially in our case, where it's true...
...progressive mission, Perspective is morally obligated to make the effort of door-to-door distribution to all students. It can be assumed that most of the people who would take a Perspective out of a rack would already be sympathetic to our goals and ideas. For our purposes, this preaching to the converted has much less value than when less sympathetic people read a Perspective because we made the effort to bring it to their door. If we wanted merely to preach to liberals, we might as well curtail our Eliot House distribution and plow the surplus into Adams House...
Three years ago, you could count on an owlish freshman to stand up in his "Justice" class and preach the conservative line in front of 800 less-than-eager students. His audience, ranging from the disinterested to the outright hostile, frequently hissed the young libertarian when he responded to the professor's request for alternative views on the death penalty and other issues. But nearly every Tuesday and Thursday in Sanders Theater, he got up in his hallmark v-neck sweater and took on his liberal opponents...
...Jewish origins that led to his ouster, but an intra-Klan factional dispute. Undeterred, Gollub moved on to Mississippi and snaked his way back into becoming that state's Klan leader. Last week Griffin fired him again, this time citing Gollub's "Jewish background." Still determined to preach his prejudices, Gollub, 30, vowed to form his own Klan. He is not likely to find many followers whose hate, like his, extends even to themselves...