Word: consists
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...police. This pair of wily thugs equip shifts of demonstrators to parade before the U.S. embassy with slogans suggesting that the latest revolutionary coup is a Communist takeover. The hoax works. Soon U.S. planes are flying the Equatorian "Freedom Fighters" to Washington. The fact that the "resistance heroes" consist mainly of Lopez, Pardo and nightclub floozies scarcely fazes ERRA, the Equatorian Refugee Relief Administration, which is shortly manned by 3,000 paper shufflers. Since "revolutions become habit-forming," Lopez and Pardo vamoose, and the Equatorian girls run away to strip houses to practice "the coldest profession...
...Bible is the word of God, containing everything necessary for man's salvation, higher education should consist of little more than studying it. This kind of reasoning produced that formidable 19th century institution, the Bible college, in which fundamentalist fervor was the school spirit, Darwin's was the team to beat, and the professor who knew his stuff was the man who could find the applicable verse in the Good Book. In this secularist midcentury, academic acceptance of the Bible college has declined toward the vanishing point. But this month marks the centennial celebration of a dramatic exception...
...more than $500,000. Funds are supplied primarily by contributors, including some big businessmen. There are no membership rolls or dues; local chapters are open to all, and usually meet with Young Life leaders-volunteer or paid-in the houses of participants. Meetings never last more than an hour, consist of rousing gospel singing and serious talk about Christ and his teaching...