Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainstream Protestant churches began clustering their national agencies in New York City. With such institutions as the U.N. and the National Council of Churches already in place, Manhattan seemed the ideal base for forward-looking church leaders. Now, for various reasons, four major denominations are simultaneously pondering whether to pull up stakes. The underlying trouble is not New York's reputation as Sin City--except insofar as liberalism is counted a sin. Churchgoers on Main Street are increasingly concerned that the left-of-center New York bureaucracies are out of step with heartland beliefs...
ironically, though Carrabino has earned many honors-including Ivy League Player of the year as a junior. Ivy League Rookie of the year as a freshman and All-Ivy honors a year ago-and has pull impressive numbers in the score books, he is still looking to claim his first Harvard basketball record...
...begins with sorrowful songs like, "FIX Me Jesus" and "Didn't My Believer Daniel." The slow, almost painful pieces break into a scene around a river. "Take Me to the Water" women a white gowns and men in their finery dance as the river rises. They sway, push and pull and upon there is no doubt that the river is rising. Donna Wood. holding a parasol way above the water, sends shivers up one's spine as she moves...
...going to pull in the reins," warned Northeastern Coach Don MacLeod before the game. "I think we should be the [Beanpot] favorites each year now because of recruitments--we're pulling away from the other three...
...Each One, Pull One", which is subtitled "Thinking of Lorraine Hansberry", is a poem of anger and anguish. At first, Walker seems to identify "them", the oppressors, very clearly: "We do not admire their president/ We know why the White House is white". But her message pulls in every artist whose voice has been silenced, ignored, or deliberately forgotten...