Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alfred, a Methodist lay preacher and unabashed autocrat, is remembered with charged and mixed feelings on the shop floor. He often sided with his manual workers against the office staff, referring to the managers
...American art can offer. When Hicks died in 1849, in his 70th year, more than 3,000 people came to his funeral-an imposing turnout today, but a prodigious crowd then. They did not come to honor an artist, however. They were paying their respects to the best Quaker preacher in Bucks County...
...Profits. Two weeks before the bombing, according to his brother John, a minister in Cheshire, Conn., Bubar "got vibrations" of an impending explosion. The Government contends that the psychic preacher indulged in a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy: Bubar allegedly paid out part of Moeller's money to Peter Betres, 54, a Butler, Pa., hotelkeeper who in turn paid off a gallery of other suspects. Thus recruited, the arson team bought dynamite, detonating material and 24 drumfuls of gasoline. Then they gathered at the plant on the day of the crime, together with Bubar, who arranged to let them...
...leaves Godfrey enough money to go to Britain's best plastic surgeon. What emerges is a face of such beauty that it suggests a saintly soul. Far from it. With beauty comes vindictiveness. Godfrey is bent on revenge for being spurned so long. He becomes a famous preacher who cries out to vast audiences: "Christ died for man to atone for sin. Can we do less for him?" In response, 332 people crucify themselves, and Godfrey himself is brought up short by a novitiate who plays Judith to his Holofernes...
...Peter J. Gomes, preacher to the University, blessed the new building saying it is a "symbol and sign of where we have been and where we have...