Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guru of that day was Albert Marshall, who was the teacher of Keynes, the patron saint of liberal economics," Fogel said. "There weren't any liberals in those days, they were all conservatives...
...drops in, burbling with enthusiasm about her new job. "I'm off to the airport to pick up the ambassador from Bojo ... and then I have to cram myself into a press conference... and then I have to drag the ambassador's idiotic wife over to Yves Saint Laurent... but a girl's gotta eat. By the way, I'm off to Iran next week, so if you want a carpet just let me know ... And what about you? You've really decided not to go back to work? Well, everybody's gotta...
...First Church of God in tiny (pop. 6,800) Benton, Ill., has a new patron saint of sorts: Elvis Presley. The fundamentalist church's affiliation with the late rock star began last February when the Rev. Lloyd Tomer was faced with a $1 million debt from the building of his new chapel. The 500 parishioners were praying daily for the Lord to show them some way to pay their debt when, according to Tomer, God answered in the person of one Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called...
...business luncheons who gets taken (figuratively, and literally) for a spy. "Nice play-acting, but it won't wash," his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with a seductive Eva-Marie Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scene: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying crop-duster...
...cases, the persons who entered into this agreement are no longer around. Coups have toppled the civilian leadership in most African countries, and a new generation of academically trained theologians is moving into leadership positions in the churches. Tensions between these two groups of new elites--those from Sandhurst, Saint Cy and West Point, and those from Oxford, Union, Strassbourg, and Tubingen--is a source of serious conflict between Church and State in Africa today...