Word: tiding
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Special Merit. The fourth vow originally made Jesuits available for any tasks the Pope desired, whether to stem the tide of Protestantism or spread the gospel to other continents. The source of the present trouble is that while most Jesuit priests once took the fourth vow, today less than half are permitted to do so. The vow has evolved into a sign of special merit based largely on scholarship. Only those who take it hold leadership positions, including all seats at the current General Congregation...
Although Christmas and St. Patrick's Day do provide a distraction to the Beantown's biting cold winter the moratorium between fall football and the hoopla of April's playoff's and Red Sox opener needed something big to tide seasons over. Thus the Beanpot (as in Boston baked) was born...
...University desperately attempting to ride out the tide of inflation, escalating energy costs and a $1.7 million deficit for this year, last week gave final approval to a $580 tuition, rooms and board increase for next year's undergraduate and graduate students, bringing total student payments...
...asks a yellow banded security man; short, Irish, build like a longshoreman. "You sure are looking goods continues the Oriental. But the Irishman is tough not good-looking. Perhaps this is a coded message that completes the gestalt of the scene; barren steppes, flooded with water, disappearing under a tide of people and their carefully-lettered banners ripped by the cold wind...
...Arabs are coming! The Arabs are coming! Or are they? No great tide of petrodollars has rolled in yet, and American experts would actually welcome the balance of payments black ink and the economic stimulation such capital might bring (TIME ESSAY, Dec. 16). Nonetheless, at least six bills were introduced, unsuccessfully, during the last Congress in an effort to impede investment by foreign nationals...