Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With most top Republicans off mending party fences in the name of Abraham Lincoln (see Republicans), the Congress could only nibble at the people's business. Nevertheless, it bit off one big mouthful...
...Republicans' annual barnstorming tour in honor of Abraham Lincoln (250 speeches at 600 Lincoln Day meetings) was over. And it was now possible to get some new indications of how the local GOProfessionals sized up the 1948 presidential stakes...
...coherent, systematic study of God and divine things. . . . Somehow modern theology will have to find the road back to the God of the Scriptures, the God of whom Pascal in his spiritual autobiography is reported to have exclaimed in the night of his conversion: 'God! the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! The God of Jesus Christ! Not the God of the philosophers and the scholars...
...Abraham Lincoln sits at home as his young sons clamber over him; they "patted his cheeks, pulled his nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...
...party had picked another candidate, he ran for the Senate of the U.S. His wife lent him her hand. Breathlessly, she rushed around the state, bouncing into the wrong meetings, but confronting every situation with rumpled and exuberant aplomb. "Once they told me I could only talk on Abraham Lincoln. But when I got through you couldn't tell where Lincoln left off and Bob Taft began." Bob was elected and went to Washington...