Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When that car stalled within a few blocks, the three fugitives seized a blue Chevrolet station wagon, which they drove until they saw a blue Ford van with a for-sale sign in its window parked in front of the Matthews home. Emily Harris walked up to Tom Matthews and said she would like to test-drive the truck. Once around the corner, Emily stopped to pick up her husband and Patty. "Do you know who this is?" Harris asked Matthews. "This is Tania." Tania was the name Patty had adopted with the S.L.A. and used while making several...
Last week most of Ulster's Protestant workers stayed home, as a sign of their support or because they were intimidated by the bands of cudgel-swinging, paramilitary youths roaming the streets to enforce the strike. Most of Belfast's main roadways were blocked; only doctors and others involved in essential services who had U.W.C. "passes" were allowed through its checkpoints. For barricades, the militants used hijacked cars and trucks, telephone poles and paving stones. Traffic in Belfast and most other Ulster towns came to a standstill. Fruits and vegetables rotted in locked shops, and electricity shortages threatened...
Given King's thick-skinned example, it would seem that winning in WTT competition takes some adjustment to the razzing variable. If true, and the record seems to bear this out, the Lobsters did not sign anyone with the requisite thickness of shell...
...useful in a church that is steadily losing its historical grip on the nation. Although the Church of England claims a baptized membership of 28 million people,* only 2.6 million are active enough to vote on parish affairs, and a mere 1.8 million worship at Easter. An equally important sign of church malaise is the declining interest in church work. Only 373 men entered the ministry in 1973, compared with 636 ten years before...
...surprised to see it happening in the next five years." Like Ramsey, he wants expanded church power in the appointment of bishops and the right to change the liturgy without Parliament's approval. He opposes total "disestablishment," however, because "a radical break would be taken as a sign of abandonment of the Christian faith on the part of the nation...