Word: ruralization
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...Build up scattered rural charges, discouraged by short-term pastorates, by subsidizing able young ministers to stay put three years or more...
...total picture and plan accordingly," said Dr. Tyson. Primarily urban and suburban in scope, the plan will also cover the country districts. Dr. Tyson reminded the 700 conference delegates that 76% of U. S. Methodist pastors and 65% of the 8,000,000 Methodist membership are in rural charges...
...small sisters who, with entwined arms, "pulled and twisted each other about as one creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural living: she cannot describe a torn sheep or a potato-digging without suggesting The Golden Bough or the poetry of St.-Joan Perse (Alexis Leger). As a woman Elizabeth Madox Roberts has her principal strength, her ultimate weakness. Her strength is an exquisite sensitiveness to the subtlest personal emotions...
Bombs were dropped over a widespread area, in both urban and rural districts. But tentative reports indicated that the raids nowhere approached blitzkrieg intensity...
These problems arise, an introductory pamphlet says, out of "budget cuts, dismissals of student press, banning of organizations, racial discrimination, distorted curricula, inequalities of opportunity for rural and negro youth, and the interruption of useful careers through conscription...