Word: amenability
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...prayers too easily lapse into a quick bedtime formality like brushing the teeth. Parents should rather encourage spontaneous prayer. She cites one she once heard: "Oh thank you, God, for our muddy garden and my Sister Baby and the lovely spiders. I want to be a Good Big Girl. Amen...
...airmen contended that those trained under U.M.T. would be practically worthless as combatants in a technological war. To this, many a Ground Force and Navy officer would say amen. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, although he has never said so publicly, has been quoted as saying that the six-month basic training period contemplated under U.M.T. would be valuable chiefly as a character and health builder; that as training for a modern war it would be largely valueless. The airmen contended that the money, time and effort could much better be spent on combat aircraft and in the training...
Amber, the girl with the bedroom eyes and the roller-coaster mink, moved Francis Cardinal Spellman to a cry of disapproval. The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency had already condemned the Hollywood version of the Kathleen Winsor novel; now the Cardinal himself added a forceful Amen: no Catholic could see it "with a safe conscience." It was only the second time he had condemned a movie (the first was in 1941 when he blasted Two-Faced Woman, with Greta Garbo...
...Amen Corner. In Johnson City, N.Y., cops broke up a bustling little business for Peter Sadowitz, who was caught operating an unlicensed bar in the social room of a local church...
...hearty "Amen" to Professor Gore's comments on church music. Too long have many of us who are organists and choirmasters been appalled by the low grade of music in the services of the church...