Word: multnomah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer to help out widows like his mother; instead he had to work in a bank to support the family. Though baptized a Catholic, Palau attended a tiny Evangelical chapel and was educated at an Anglican college. He began small-time preaching stints as a youth. Later he attended Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Ore., where he now lives with his American wife Pat and their four sons...
This feminine capacity to dispel male anger (also observed in studies of aides in mental wards) may be due to the value system of male criminals: assaults on male authority figures are ranked high. Policemen are often attacked "because it is heroic," says Ronald G. Talney of the Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff's department. But policewomen might avoid such assaults simply because "it is cowardly to attack a woman, even though she is a police officer." Actual incidents seem to support Talney's view: a child-beating suspect who had twice resisted arrest surrendered peacefully when Private Mary...