Word: awakenning
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...takes something like this letter to awaken us to the appalling fact that America after all is far from being a Christian nation...
...problem of the educator is, above all, to touch, awaken, perhaps even transform the student. Proceeding from small things that can be seen and felt, to large things that can be dealt with only in abstraction, is one of the surest ways of igniting the diffident...
...managers translated the three words into specific needs, and sent hurry-up calls for more food. In the U.S., where food was richer and more plentiful than before the war, where everything from elephants to lolly-pops could be bought in the black market, the people began to awaken-a little. Housewives, seeing their grocers' shelves still filled to overflowing, began to ask: "What...
...mind. Charles Clayton Morrison decided to write a series of articles on the challenging theme, "Can Protestantism Win America?"* This week, in the second installment, came a startling if partial answer: "Protestantism has given no convincing evidence that, in its present state, it is able to . . . awaken a vital response to the realities of the Christian gospel...
...first the Aussie jungle fighters jeered at Media Koigi's goose pimples. Soon they grew respectful. A native New Guinea scout, Koigi said his flesh rose whenever the enemy was near. At night, in deep jungle bivouacs, he would suddenly awaken, feel the skin tightening on his arms, whisper to his sergeant: "Japan man, Japan man." He was always as right as radar. Once, at Koigi's direction, the Aussies threw a grenade 50 yards up the dense jungle trail, killed an unseen...