Word: preachings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hears confessions, baptizes, performs weddings. Yet his sympathies lie with a bold underground of heretics, Cathars who see the world as the realm of Satan and the church as a device of hell. The cleric actively supports these zealots who will neither touch women nor eat meat, men who preach heresy to his parishioners. At the same time he uses his powers of flattery and persuasion to seduce most of the nearby females, including a local noblewoman, the chatelaine, and his 14-year-old cousin. When the Inquisition comes to town, he turns double agent, denouncing his fellow heretics...
...could hardly have functioned there without anyone eligible for priesthood. Despite June's revelation, Kimball says careful consideration will be necessary before he dispatches the first mission teams in history to the area. But ultimately, Kimball has a broad vision: "The Saviour said, go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, and that's what we have been working toward." The Mormons have a long way to go, but as a result of Spencer Kimball's innovations, new classes and cultures may yet penetrate Brigham Young's mountain-ringed fastness...
...ability at the national level. (No Administration in recent memory has been so close to the mid-term mark with so few significant personnel changes as Carter's has.) Finally, his deep moralism and evangelistic background at times seem to have persuaded him that it is enough to preach the good word or introduce the good program without having to follow through with hard political pressures...
...that this labor settlement would be an "exception," because they got into the rail negotiations only after most of management's offers were already on the table. In fact, the talks had been going on for ten months before the Wage and Price Council began to preach moderation. Bosworth, speaking with a refreshing candor that may start getting him into trouble, said the Administration had "fumbled," adding, "This negotiation is one that got away from...
Like the Mikado, who sentenced prosy society bores "to hear sermons from mystical Germans who preach from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer...