Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VINCENT DE PAUL...
...Vincent Lombardi set out to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but along the way he discovered another religion: football. To it, he brought his special brand of apostolic dedication and evangelical fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade...
...minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
High-Price Squeeze. "People have panicked over the stock market," says Pittsburgh Builder Vincent Amore, whose $50,000 homes are selling slowly. The market is particularly sluggish in the suburbs around New York City. Several major corporations have shifted their headquarters out of troubled Manhattan, and transferred executives are forced to sell their houses, creating an oversupply in the market. Many have shaved the asking prices for their houses. A house that commanded $90,000 last year now moves for about...
...Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, Mrs. Kasabian represents the heart of his case...