Word: mormons
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...When Mormon scouts wandered through the Bear River Valley of southwestern Wyoming in the 1840s, they found oil flowing into streams and used it to grease the axles of their wagons. But it was not until 1974, when a deep pool of oil was tapped at Pineview Field outside the small town of Evanston, that the rush began...
...Harvard people embrace individual Mormon ethics and metaphysics of James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Hocking; eschew the worst cleave to the best of pilgrim fathers--in a moral commitment equal to the intellectual: you can transcend modern man into a dramatic new amalgam, generating a powerful and irresistible public mood, in which the weakest and most derelict find it easy to do right and hard to do wrong. Henry Ratliff...
...school; Gunter opposed it. He supported ERA; she did not. There was no argument over the candidates' support of Israel, a critical issue for Florida's sizable Jewish population. Gunter, who is a Baptist, reminded voters that he had met his wife Teresa in Jerusalem. Hawkins, a Mormon, told members of a synagogue: "There are twelve tribes of Israel, and the Mormons happen to be one of them. That's my belief." Hawkins was undoubtedly helped by the Reagan landslide. At a rally in Miami, the G.O.P. candidate told a loudly cheering crowd: "I want Paula Hawkins...
Along 16th Street all the world's churches seem to have convened for a permanent caucus - Mormon, Universalist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Swedenborgian. There are many distinctive areas like this. Glen Echo is an amusement park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during...
...Idaho, the voters have seen the most colorful battle of all. The Church-Steve Symms fight has included everything--Symms lost votes in Mormon southeastern Idaho when word got out he was something of a womanizer. But he may have regained the support when his troops began circulating a statement Church reportedly made upon his return from Libya in 1977 to the effect that he had been too busy to chase women and drink liquor...