Word: vaughan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...synch with conservative political trends, convert-minded Evangelicals are quick to shed traditions, holding Saturday- night worship, say, or replacing hymnals with song sheets and soft-rock bands. In many cities, they have built huge local congregations, offering every imaginable social service from counseling to fitness centers. John Vaughan, who tracks these Protestant Wal-Marts in Megachurches & America's Cities, says a quarter-century ago, 10 U.S. Protestant congregations reported weekly attendance of 2,000 or more. Today 400 churches make this claim, with a new giant joining the list every few weeks...
...Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown routine and less convincing; the bureaucrats are cynical and restive. The SS and the Gestapo are at odds, like the FBI and the CIA during Watergate. Police officers (among them Peter Vaughan and Michael Kitchen in fine supporting roles) haven't lost their morals, just some of their courage...
...South Carolina, joined the family of 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander Smith to bury the two children whose mother has confessed to drowning them. Meanwhile, Susan Smith, who originally claimed the boys had disappeared in a carjacking, sat in jail under a suicide watch. Scott Vaughan, her brother, apologized to the community's black residents for his sister's fabrication of a black carjacker-kidnapper and for the ensuing racial tensions the story fostered...
Head Coach: Don Vaughan...
Among jazz divas, Billie Holiday had the pain, Ella Fitzgerald the purity, Sarah Vaughan the sass. And Lena Horne? She had the ice. With her cut-diamond beauty and panther smile, her drop-dead elegance and dry-martini voice, she was always dazzling while staying just out of reach...