Word: reno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cynics-convicts who show up for services to improve their chances for parole. The ministers try to avoid any sign of moral judgment. The Rev. George Tolson of San Quentin wears an old green eyeshade when he interviews inmates ("It reminds them of the man behind the tables at Reno") and tells them: "I'm not here with answers. I'm just here to share with you what you've been going through." Colorado's Graham, like other chaplains, is aware that prisoners actively dislike people "messing around with their minds," and that sometimes a jolt...
...many Catholics but shocked others, and the correspondence columns of diocesan newspapers have recently been filled with letters about the version. "I haven't met anybody who has liked it," says Msgr. Charles Finn, pastor of Boston's Holy Name Church, and Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno complains that the translation reduces "language to its lowest common denominator of intelligibility." Some critics saw an implied denial of Christ's divinity in the Confraternity phrasing of Matthew 28:6: the two women at Jesus' tomb are told, "He has been raised," not "He has risen...
...next on her list of places to go and see. She will be flying over next month for the Ed Sullivan show, open in Reno in October, move on to Manhattan's Copacabana in November. But in fact, she has already conquered. Not only was Downtown the best hit of 1964; right behind it is her I Know a Place, which in the past five weeks has zoomed from No. 50 to No. 2, seems sure to make the last rung...
...Withdrawal. Just what happened next remains fuzzy. But on Oct. 1, Mintkenbaugh was summarily fired from his real estate job. Next morning, after withdrawing $2,000 from his bank account, Johnson disappeared. More than a month later Johnson surrendered to Army authorities in Reno, Nev., was subsequently court-martialed for being AWOL and given a routine job, well away from classified material, at Washington's Fort McNair. As for Mintkenbaugh, he went to California, had a little chat with his brother, and turned himself...
Senator McClellan went out of his way to state the indisputable fact that the U.S. banking system is "basically sound and of the highest integrity." Reno Odlin, president of the American Bankers Association, pointed out that last year's failures involved only 0.06% of the nation's banks, said that "banking is probably one of the most racketeer-free industries in the country." All very true -but that did not take the sting out of the daily headlines about banking scandals, and it is unlikely to lessen the embarrassment of the banking community as the weeks of investigation...