Word: blessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost hypnotic. Behind it sits a sharply dressed, broad-shouldered six-footer, flashing smiles with neon-sign regularity and radiating a homeyness rarely found in homes. When the flow of words is finally finished, he looks straight into the listener's eyes and ends with a benison: "God bless you.'1 The man with the magic voice and manner is neither preacher, politician nor gunslinger-though he needs to be a good deal of each in his business. He is James Martin Moran. 42. the ebullient, aggressive and imaginative owner and president of Chicago's Courtesy Motor...
...exhorted his circuit riders to "preach expressly on education," learning for themselves was another matter. Until 1934, Methodist ministers needed no bachelor's degree for ordination, qualified by a laughable oral exam. One minister bragged about his answers. What is the world's highest mountain? "Mount Zion, bless the Lord." The longest river? "River of salvation, hallelujah...
Newton N. Minow, 34, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Hours after he had explained to his family about the new job in Washington, Lawyer Minow overheard eight-year-old Daughter Nell conclude her bedside prayers with ". . . and God bless Mommy and Mr. Chairman." Adds Mr. Chairman: "I can only say amen. I've got a tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after...
Ironically, Francis of Assisi was roughest of all on the animals. While Curtiz eliminated the sermon to the birds as "too corny," Dillman was still required to bless a menagerie ranging from dogs to ducks. And in the closing minutes of the film-shot in Rome on golden sand previously hallowed by Ben-Hur's chariot tracks -the director decided to foreshadow Francis' death by depicting a raven on a desolate limb. Explained a Curtiz assistant: "We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop. Some body shut a car door...
After mailing their gift, the fraternity members drifted back toward their starting point, singing "God Bless America," They tried to retrieve their posters, but all had mysteriously disappeared except for one reading "Radical Punks for Gold water...