Word: blackbeard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frightful destiny." From the hydrangea-festooned platform, Billy denounced the radical "Death of God" theologians, and shouted: "I fear that sex has become our goddess-and has that one-eyed thing in our living room become our God?" Moved by the fist-pounding sermon, 450 people-a leonine blackbeard, a Negro youth, a golden blonde, hand-holding lovers-came forward to make "decisions for Christ" almost precisely in the numbers foretold by the slide rules of Billy's knowledgeable aides...