Word: statuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge of administering a small German town, then a county with a population of 140,000. Later he was assigned to the faculty of an Army intelligence school in Oberammergau, teaching modern German history to officers ranking as high as lieutenant colonel. The disparity in military status became embarrassing. In 1946, he was made a civilian employee of the Army,'with a salary of $10,000 and a captain's rank in the Army Reserve. But by the next year he was restless. "I know nothing," he told a friend. He won a Government scholarship that began his long association...
...represent the first wave of a new pan-Europeanism. "The obsession of the new mass tourism is not to see a new country but to find two commodities: the sun and the sea." In Sampson's opinion, even the automobile, Europe's latest symbol of liberation and status, provides a chrome-trimmed distraction from serious subjects, including the concept of unity...
...really Catholic. African rites were brought by slaves, and the lower-class people who prac tice spiritism have adopted Catholic saints and some Catholic rituals. They use the Catholic icons to represent their African gods. Carnaval ends up as a time when the lower class uses the status of the rich white man's religion mixed with African gods-the ones the poor believe in. The celebration thus pulls the country together...
...against him. Three weeks ago, it issued an order that all Roman Catholic priests and members of religious orders were henceforth forbidden to study at the Cuernavaca center. Illich was not surprised. Even before his session at the Vatican, he had quietly asked for-and had received-temporary lay status from New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke. Thus he gave up the right to say Mass and perform other priestly functions but also adroitly deprived the Vatican of any effective power of suspension...
Harvard's former baseball coach, Norm Shepard, labeled Peters' professional status "a tremendous blow to Harvard baseball." When pressed further, Shepard elaborated: "A pitcher like Ray comes along just once in a while. He was one that could throw the ball by the hitter. You don't get a real stopper like Ray every...