Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic clergy has certain military parallels. A priest, having taken the vow of obedience, can be moved from place to place at his superior's will. For many, such shifting around means only a creative variety of duty. But for others, just as for some soldiers, transfer implies punishment, or at least temporary removal of an inconvenience. Giving no reasons, bishops or religious superiors can move a priest or fire a professor who has done nothing more than exercise what others would call his constitutional right of free speech...
During the week, the lawyers worked on two problems. First, they drew up papers by which the City agreed to transfer the section of Kirkland St. back to Harvard. And second, they worked out agreements under which the University guaranteed to build the underpass and also grant temporary usage of Kirkland St. until new alternate routes are provided...
...several years, therefore, the majority of Greece's bishops have been agitating for a new law to provide for bishops' transfer, and in the meantime their ruling body, the Assembly of Bishops, has been refusing to fill rich posts that fall vacant, hoping that if the law were changed they could get themselves transferred to these plums. In October they seemed to be making progress; Premier Stephanos Stephanopoulos' Cabinet authorized transfers in two of the 17 vacant dioceses...
Emily Levine as Lady Britomart, and Hamilton Corbett as Barbara's professor-fiancee, are the best of the leads. Miss Levine's portrayal of the imperious lady who has her son transfer a cushion from chair to chair as she moves is clear and consistent. Corbett's Adolphus Cusins believably combines modesty, erudition, cynicism, and animal...
...Junior transfer John Friedman twisted his way to a narrow victory in the dive, but Springfield still...