Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrew bought it. From that time on he was lost and godless in the eyes of Bishop John Helmuth and the others. In accordance with the 17th article of the Amish doctrine, the Dordrecht Confession of Faith,* the Mennonite "mite" or "shun" was placed against him. It declares: ". . . we believe and confess that if anyone . . . is so far fallen as to be separated from God ... he must also be shunned so that we may not become defiled . . . [and] that he may be made ashamed...
Finally, Andrew could take it no longer. The mited man filed suit for $40,000 in Wayne County Common Pleas Court against the Bishop and his elders and asked the court also to make the elders call off the "shun." Last week in Wooster, a jury of nine men and three women, none of them Amish, listened sympathetically as the thin-faced, round-bearded Yoder retailed his woes...
Women are tending to shun their domestic role in life, and the schools are aiding them in this trend, O. Hobart Mowrer, associate professor of Education, told the Students Association of Natural and Social Sciences last night...
...broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
...play in British life. Although he had no constitutional power of his own, Albert exercised enormous influence over British politics by patiently and studiously advising Victoria. A royal husband, he wrote, "should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife. He should aim at no power, shun all contention and continuously and anxiously watch every part of the public business in order to assist and advise...