Word: preacherly
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...youth roused skepticism in a mercenary age, but his credo underlay his success. At his death last week after a heart attack in Manhattan, Penney, 95, left a 1,660-store empire that he built without compromising the stiff principles he had absorbed from three generations of Baptist-preacher ancestors. He neither smoked nor drank, and for years demanded the same abstemious conduct from his employees. "I believe in adherence to the Golden Rule, faith in God and the country," he often said. "I would rather be known as a Christian than a merchant...
...Branch, a Baptist preacher and schoolteacher, who sought the office that controls the issuing of deeds, land transfers, eviction notices, wills and mortgages. As with Gilmore in his race for sheriff, there was special satisfaction in his candidacy for Branch: his father had been thrown off a tenant farm when he was a youth. "There were no eviction papers ever issued, man. I'm going to look those records...
...priesthood as a "sheepfold for sheep" unless it was informed by experience in the world. Both Berrigans doted on the postwar French Catholic avantgarde, and a year in France during the heyday of the worker-priests radicalized Daniel further. Later, at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, he became a rigorous preacher of Gospel poverty, prodding his students to "get poor," urging friends to sell their homes and move into the ghetto, sending students down South, where brother Philip was teaching in an all-black New Orleans high school, to work with CORE. On a 1963 trip to Europe, Daniel became fascinated...
...born each year in Britain; in 1969, one bride in five was pregnant at the time of her marriage. That point is amply illustrated in the leaflet by a picture showing a very pregnant young woman in a white wedding gown, taking nuptial vows and saying to the preacher...
Ramsay's interest in saintly matters begins during boyhood in a tiny Canadian village when he meets the young wife of a hard-shell Baptist preacher. She is thought to be simple by the townspeople, and proves it to the villagers' angry satisfaction by copulating with a tramp, apparently out of pure charity, and then calmly explaining-when they are caught together-that she did it because "He was very civil. And he wanted it so badly." After that her husband keeps her tied up. She takes little notice of this restraint and continues to exist in untroubled...