Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, though, Catholics have become accustomed to the fact of ex-priests in their midst; many of the defectors remain on good terms with friends still in clerical ranks. Nonetheless, former priests generally prefer anonymity and seek to avoid publicizing their ecclesiastical background. Says one former priest from the Midwest, who now is a Boston textbook salesman: "On the whole I have met with very little hostility-but then I don't tell everyone I meet, 'Guess what? I used to be a priest...
...gave it a bad name. The truth is that most Americans are casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis: "Get me outside the country and suddenly I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S." Such...
...campaign was sounded by an advertisement placed in last Thursday's Cambridge Chronicle by one Marjorie Ainsworth. The ad featured a picture of the City Manager, the names of the Council majority, and a call for their repudiation. "What a Mess," the ad concluded. Mrs. Ainsworth said Friday, "I prefer not to discuss that, but I have my reasons...
There is nothing unusual about kidney transplants these days, although last week's "doubleheader" operation was a kind of surgical economy seldom arranged. While doctors would prefer to use kidneys from close relatives to lessen the chances of natural rejection of foreign tissue, such donations cannot often be arranged. Those willing to donate organs are often not healthy or else are incompatible donors, and those able to donate are often not willing. The next best source is cadavers...
...catchall term describing children who suffer from slight brain damage or inherited neurological handicaps that interfere with their control over both motor and sensory functions. Some are hyperactive-any kind of stimulation distracts them, makes them restless. Others withdraw into a shell, have trouble expressing themselves, prefer not to try rather than risk failure at learning. All seem unable to concentrate more than fleetingly on a problem; many see letters transposed, hear sounds out of order, cannot write in a normal sequence...