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Word: thirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bostonians in this most Catholic of American cities to get a glimpse of the Pope. Many seemed not to mind that they got only a quick peek as his motorcade sped by. Whizzing through Dorchester on the way to town, he spotted a 6-ft. sign, hanging from the third floor of the home of Martin and Antania Olesch, that read, "Nie bojcie sie ofworzyc na osciez drzwi chrystusowi" (Don't be afraid to open the door wide for Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...disagree with the church on some issues without being anti-Catholic. A number of Catholics see evidence that the rest of the country is anti-Catholic if it seems to exclude ethnics - Italians, Irish, Poles and so on - from various opportunities. But that logic is also defective. One-third of the nation's Catholics are Hispanics. Does a prejudice against them equal a prejudice against Catholics? Not really. It is not specifically the Catholicism of ethnics that prompts the residual and now diminishing bigotry that they encounter; it is many things - culture, background, accent, even dress and neighborhoods - with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...From now on Members of Parliament will have to submit to renomination by their local constituency parties midway through their terms-making them "poodles" on a short leash, as one moderate M.P. angrily remarked. Only the bloc votes of some moderate trade unions saved Callaghan from defeat on the third proposal: the choice of the party leader will remain in the hands of the "parliamentary party," the elected M.P.s, and will not shift, as the Benn faction demanded, to a broad-based electoral college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Left Jerks on Labor's Reins | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Shuttling back to Beirut for a third huddle with Arafat, Jackson suffered a relapse and wound up in the American University of Beirut Hospital. Later in the evening Yasser Arafat and his aides turned up for a twelve-minute bedside chat, making it clear that the P.L.O.'s military action against Israel would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Further Travels with Jesse | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Rich Dauer started the rally by doubling, and he moved to third on a Rick Dempsey single. Pirate shortshop Tim Foli misplayed a Scott MacGregor grounder to load the bases, and Kiko Garcia slammed home all three runners with a triple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orioles Trample Pirates, 8-4 | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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