Word: stole
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...holding?" asked a sheriff's deputy. The officers approached the boys and confiscated half of a Black and Mild cigar. Jesse Lee, 13, who was holding it, got a ticket. His companion, also 13, responded by mumbling obscenities at the cops. "I could see if we robbed somebody or stole a car and killed somebody," he said. "This don't make no sense." To the antitobacco crusaders, however, neither does smoking...
...things that dump foam or water on you, and they're battery operated. I stole all the batteries and took...
...shiny pews, unused to the immaculate splendor of the organ that frames the altar. But all the strangeness of the loaned space is quickly forgotten in a rustle of excitement. "Oh yeah, she's starting," whispers a parishioner as a sandy-haired woman wearing an alb and cropped green stole stands before the altar...
...year-old mother of three ministered to her flock, preaching on a weekly basis, hearing confession and presiding at Mass. And though she neither granted absolution nor consecrated Communion, five years ago, the congregation recognized her leadership by vesting her with an alb and a half-stole. It was a gift that unleashed a host of hidden enemies...
Clark asked Ramerman to modulate her role during Mass, in part by desisting from "priestly gestures" and by removing her stole. She refused and was dismissed on Oct. 15. But she is unrepentant. Says she: "The Vatican holds women back when it sends the message that we're not good enough to approach the altar, not good enough to read the Gospel, not good enough to be a priest...