Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with its obvious defects, the law has had an enormous effect on the attitude of the woman seeking abortion. While she used to appear in her doctor's office weeping, cringing and remorseful, she now walks in self-possessed, knowing that she has certain rights and confident of talking out her problem sensibly with her doctor. In a growing number of cases, she succeeds...
...Faith and Power," and they also know that something powerful is coming. "We need six strong men to help bring out this stretcher," he shouts. Half a dozen eager volunteers spring into the wings to bring out an ambulance stretcher carrying a groaning black woman. "This woman was brought into the hospital this morning with third-degree burns over her body," reads an attending nurse. "She was home, high on dope, when her clothes caught fire in the kitchen...
Please, Jesus. "This is a sad story," says Allen, in his raspy Ozark baritone. He bends over the victim. "Do you believe God can raise you up?" Weakly, evincing great pain, she answers. "Yes, I do believe." "Raise your hands to ward this woman and pray," he commands the crowd. Four thousand arms shoot into the air. In the back, a little man caresses his Bible. "Please, sweet Jesus. Please, Jesus," he repeats. As the people pray, Allen lays his hands on the victim. "Heal!" he cries. "Heal her wounds in the name of Jeee-uh-zuss!" Already, the crowd...
Miracle Valley. Born in Arkansas, Allen was converted from Methodism to Pentecostalism in his early 20s, when he heard a woman evangelist preach in a country church, eventually became a minister with the Assemblies of God. By 1953, he was already concentrating on faith healing-and prospering. Three years later, the Assemblies of God dismissed him for failing to appear at a church trial resulting from a Tennessee drunken-driving arrest, but Allen hardly seemed to care. The same year, he organized his own Miracle Revival Fellowship, which claims to be nondenominational, but has become in effect an independent sect...
...year-old woman was killed yesterday morning when she fell in the path of a Boston-bound MBTA subway train in the Harvard Square station. The victim was identified as Mrs. Christian Lane of Washington Street in Gloucester...