Word: scottishly
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Silence! He was thus a very American Catholic theologian. Born on Manhattan's 19th Street to a Scottish-born lawyer father and an Irish mother, both of whom were Catholics, the boy had shown an interest in medicine as a profession. But he joined the Jesuits at 16, and after earning an M.A. at Boston College, spent three years teaching in the Philippines. Then there was more study-four years of theology at the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland, four years of graduate theology at the Gregorian University in Rome-before returning to Woodstock as professor of theology...
King of Hearts. Provincial France. World War I. Retreating Germans plant a time bomb in a town square, preparing to explode it at midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...
What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards against hasty ecclesiastical legislation by requiring that changes in church law be approved by a General Assembly, then be sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk...
...Scottish Burr. Concern with foreign markets is a hallmark of Caterpillar's recent management. A decade ago the company did no manufacturing overseas; today it has plants in eleven foreign countries. With foreign sales now accounting for 45% of its business, Cat has become the U.S.'s second biggest exporter after General Motors, last year helped shore up the nation's strained balance of payments with $444 million in foreign-earned revenue. The company now manufactures 250 different pieces of heavy-duty equipment, from pipelayers (cost: $96,000) capable of lifting 100 tons to giant scrapers (cost...
...economy, Bill Blackie left his native Scotland for the U.S., where he became an accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago. Since Caterpillar was one of his clients, the urbane Blackie found himself spending plenty of time at the company's headquarters. "Peoria," he recalls with a slight Scottish burr, "was something I'd not quite experienced before." He evidently liked the experience, for in 1939 he quit Price Waterhouse to become Cat's controller. He moved to president in 1962, and last year, when Harmon Eberhard stepped down after four years as Cat's chairman...