Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bible scholar. They based their calculations mainly on Daniel 8:14 ("And he said unto me. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"), taking the "days" as years and the cleansing of the sanctuary as the end of the world. William Miller, a Baptist minister of Low Hampton, N.Y., was not an educated man, but he was sincere and persuasive; when the dread year came, Millerites from Vermont to Virginia settled their affairs and waited. Scoffers made fun of them by donning white robes and climbing trees and hilltops to look for the Lord...
...attention has been called to a letter appearing in TIME, Nov. 19 under the signature of the Rev. Paul Bernhardt, First Baptist Church, Elmira, N.Y. I did not write any letter to your magazine, nor did anyone on my staff; and furthermore no one was authorized to use our official stationery in expressing his personal opinion on the British-French entry into Egypt...
...First Baptist Church Elmira...
...Sing. A few days later Djilas was seized in his Belgrade home and sent to the prison Belgraders call Sing Sing. Early one morning last week granite-hard Djilas, flanked by two tall guards, was brought into Belgrade's Circuit Court, an austerely timbered room resembling a southern Baptist Church, where a panel of three judges sat under a large portrait of Tito. Smiling confidently, and nodding to his wife in the public benches, Djilas listened to the prosecutor read the indictment: "Milovan Djilas ... a Montenegrin . . ." Djilas interrupted: "Not a Montenegrin, a Yugoslav." Then the court was cleared...
Clear-cut though his victory was, Diefenbaker's rise to the Tory leadership was not easy. The conservative old guard of the party has always regarded him as something of a misfit in their ranks. Baptist Diefenbaker seemed unsociable; he neither drank nor smoked, and joined none of the Tory clubs. He was a maverick in Parliament, campaigning for a Canadian Bill of Rights similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, and calling for stiffer antitrust laws while the Tory Party stood for pure British tradition and unfettered free enterprise. Even Diefenba-ker's Dutch-origin name...