Word: sheepfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rent-a-sheep requests have been pouring in from all over Germany, and Doris is thinking of expanding the business by selling partnerships to individuals. For them, the sheepfold could be a tax shelter: Germany levies no taxes on individuals' capital gains from the sale of assets (other than real estate) held for six months, which is just about as long as Gesellschaft fur Schafsverleih plans to own its sheep. Meanwhile, Anette tries to make sure that customers protect the animals from predators of all kinds. She turned down one customer located near a community of Turks...
...ordination, Daniel wrote a controversial essay?now a minor classic ?characterizing the priesthood as a "sheepfold for sheep" unless it was informed by experience in the world. Both Berrigans doted on the postwar French Catholic avantgarde, and a year in France during the heyday of the worker-priests radicalized Daniel further. Later, at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, he became a rigorous preacher of Gospel poverty, prodding his students to "get poor," urging friends to sell their homes and move into the ghetto, sending students down South, where brother Philip was teaching in an all-black New Orleans high school...