Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party has offered them. In the largest factory in Lodz, no new candidate for party membership has been recruited for two years. And in the town of Ziebice, only 30 of 300 party members showed up at a meeting to choose a new party secretary-and none would take...
...elections, he faked an inflammatory picture of a Negro family agitating for "equality" (TIME, Oct. 6). But now invective ("lying bastards, gutless s.o.b.s.") is gone from his lips. He holds court in his Main Street store, telling all comers that "only Jesus is important. If everybody could take Jesus to their hearts, there would be no problems in the world...
...alike believe that sects which soften the old-fashioned hell are running a considerable risk. Fear of the eternal fire, they hold, helps to make people behave. Last week the powerful United Church of Canada, a union of Canada's Methodists, Congregationalists and some Presbyterians, seemed willing to take this chance. Its Committee on Christian Faith published a booklet, Life and Death, that repudiates the fire and brimstone of the traditionalists' Hell...
...back France's Communist-led, largely unchurched working classes, the French cardinals in 1943 founded the "Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other pastoral duties during off hours. By 1953, it was obvious that something had gone wrong: of almost 150 worker-priests, some 20 had married and left the church while others had joined Communist unions or Redline causes. Pope Pius XII sternly limited les prêtres-ouvriers to three hours of factory...
...interested in producing well-rounded men, but men with sharp, abrasive edges-rebels with clear minds and uncowed consciences, critics of society, not adjusters to it." The words would have a stirring ring coming from any educator, but they take on added meaning coming from the dean of faculty of a new public college spun off by big (20,000 students) Michigan State University, long known as an "ag and tech" institution. Last week, at the opening of the new college at Oakland, 60 miles east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime...