Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian churches may differ in doctrine and in their basic convictions about what mission work is all about, but one factor tends to unite liberals and conservatives, Protestants and Catholics: they are all reaching out to the poor. By and large, the unevangelized populations of the world are those stricken by poverty and threatened by rapid change in their societies. All these conflicting patterns and tensions converge in Latin America, which has more U.S. missionaries than any other part of the world: some 9,250 Protestants and 2,180 Catholics. With a few notable exceptions, Catholic missionaries in the 17th...
...travel around California campaigning for a nuclear freeze. In between some backseat driving, he talked to Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that had fallen on a patio table and, inevitably, jump up to prepare a bowl of popcorn. Says Worrell: "He is hyper and whimsical. But he wears his humor like armor; underneath, he is serious about his activism and his acting...
...trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems so perfect that it is a mystery why it never happened before...
...poverty-stricken provincial telegraph operator, Gabriel was raised in the great, gloomy house of his grandfather, a retired army colonel. He attended law classes at the University of Bogotá, but journalism proved more enticing than jurisprudence. The self-exiled reporter, working for Latin American newspapers, moved restlessly through
...holocausts can still instill strange hilarity in some, or make even the most trained and disciplined person break down. One of our neighbors--another old-timer--served cocktails on the veranda as the fire crept over the hill. Another nearby resident, an experienced stewardess, drove while-eyed and panic-stricken down the hill in the family's only car, leaving her husband, her daughter and her horses stranded in the path of the oncoming flames...