Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more defenseless wicket.'' He added sternly that the News editor who passed the piece had been "brought to book." The editor, a bewildered Texan named Elizabeth Pengelly, explained that she had been "disarmed" by the fact that the editorial was written by a usually reliable contributor, the Rev. Vibart Ridgeway, an Anglican priest and scion of an old and distinguished English family...
...revered relics, e.g., some handwrought nails from war-damaged Coventry Cathedral and a stone from the German castle where Martin Luther hid in 1521 while translating and revising the Greek New Testament. But these rank as no more than details blended into the revolutionary design which, says the Rev. Donald Fisher Campbell, senior pastor, "gives a sense of the presence of the Almighty...
...Called Henry. In Mold, Wales, the Rev. Henry Rees flunked the driving-license test for the fifth time, and, according to later court testimony, vengefully struck the examiner with a car-door handle, tried to butt him in the face, kicked at his legs, cried: "I'll bloody well shoot you," paid a ?5 ($14) fine...
Fifty-three hours after the accident, the submerged bus was finally hooked 200 yds. from the point where it hit the water. Cables were lashed on by Navy frogmen: two tractors winched the tragic cargo ashore. As the first bodies were carried out, the Rev. Ivan Jones of West Prestonsburg's Assembly of God Church called for a moment of prayer. "Lord strengthen our hearts in this trying time...
...Rev. Ralph W. Stutzman, 29, who came to Unitarianism from the Evangelical-United Brethren Church and served as assistant to All Souls' late, famed Pastor A. Powell Davies, rejected for himself even the loose definition of Christian as one who tries to follow the teachings of Jesus. "Which Jesus should I follow-the one who said 'Turn the other cheek. Love your enemies.' or the one who said 'Do not think that I have come to bring peace, but a sword...