Word: accordance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, D.C., public relations executive for 14 million U.S. Baptists. In a crackling voice he read an amendment: "The practices of freedom in non-Communist countries are imperiled by pressures exerted ... by the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . The ecclesiastical organization and policies of the Roman Catholic Church do not accord with the preservation and extension of religious freedom...
...demanded the right to harangue the group would, of course, been out of order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed, had a order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed, had a retort been in order, is the way to dispose of Mr. Curley which is in closest accord with the tenets that the do-gooders generally profess is not to substitute a different organizational form for the government of Boston but to lick Mr. Curley in an election by offering a candidate and program which the voters of Boston would prefer to Mr. Curley...
...Dunphy. The Cardinal visited Dunphy at his church last fall and suggested-"very suavely," says Father Dunphy-that he ought to resign. Just before Christmas, police held the priest for eight hours while they tried to make him admit authorship of an anonymous pamphlet called "Liberty," "I am in accord with what it says," Dunphy assured them, "but it is not in my style, and I did not write...
...club met in Leverett House that night and chalked a magic circle on the floor. They drew cabalistic signs on the walls and in the air, following an ancient recipe. Everyone stood on the circle, for it wasn't safe to be outside. Accord- ing to the script, all this should make the devil appear, usually in the form of a goat or a butterfly...
...permitted [liceat], is it convenient [deceat], is it opportune [expediat to adhere to these requests [for the dogmatic definition of the Assumption]?" The letter explicitly asked the "Venerable Brothers" if, "according to your wisdom and prudence, you believe that the Bodily Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin be established and defined as a dogma of faith and if this would be in accord with the wishes of your clergy and people." The Pope is reported to have said that the "answers, in their great majority, are favorable...