Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's more to life than football," says Rich Szaro '71, and he should know. Now an export manager for a New York City clothing firm and co-founder of Energetic Propulsions, Ltd., developers of a new, patented, horizontal motion bicycle, Szaro has shed his pads and helmet for good. There was a time not so long ago, however, when football was Szaro's whole life--from schoolboy running back to NFL placekicker with the New Orleans Saints...
...denounces the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility, and Paul VI's condemnation of birth control and homosexuality. He belongs to the liberal Catholic tradition that Plus IX tried to crush with his Syllabus. These are the liberals who believe the Vatican should shed its "ancient and mediaeval world-view," in Kung's words, and compromise with modernism in order to keep more sheep in the fold...
...like our Milky Way. By glimpsing objects as far off as 14 billion light years, it will be capturing light that has taken 14 billion years to reach us, and thus be looking 14 billion years into the past, to the very beginnings of the universe. Finally, it may shed light on quasars, those enigmatically powerful beacons that appear to be at the extreme edge of the cosmos...
...Human Potential Counselor Alma Daniel, 45, a veteran of the self-awareness movement who, by her count, has attended 52 consciousness-expanding workshops in the past six years. She installed the tank last April in a bedroom of her 25th-floor Manhattan apartment. Now five people a week shed their clothes, as well as their sense of time and space, and for $25 spend one hour exploring their psyches in the Epsom tub or simply enjoying a good soak...
Never known for its scenic beauty, recent films like "Dawn of the Living Dead" and back-home segments of "Deerhunter," location in Pittsburgh, have done little to enhance its reputation. The "Smoky City" has been a hard image for Pittsburgh to shed...