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Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
...ditching. Engels sadly noted that Americans were "practical" but tremendously backward in "theory." At first the Socialist movement in the U.S. was largely staffed by immigrants who had a sharper taste for theory, and the Socialist Labor Party of North America would have remained a "small, moribund, foreign-language sect" had not practical, native forces been stirring...
...other, by day or night, with never a worry about Viet Minh bandits. At night, villages that once huddled fearfully in the darkness are brightly lighted, with no fear of a grenade lobbing out of the shadows. In Saigon the exquisite bordellos run by the sinister Binh Xuyen sect were gone. But a new restaurant offered excellent French food, and a more conventional nightclub did a roaring business. The expensive perfume and lingerie shops that catered to rich French colonists and their ladies have been replaced with more modest Vietnamese shops selling sewing machines. Even the French have taken heart...
...confused with Shin Buddhism, a liberal, elastic sect which comprises most of the 60,000 Buddhists in the U.S., a majority of them West Coast Nisei...
...Investigative Judgment." It has taken a long time to bury the enmities. For the sect labeled Seventh-day Adventist was born in bitter disappointment and with the contemptuous laughter of Protestantism ringing in its ears...