Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These facts were turned up in a careful survey conducted by Presbyterian Minister-Sociologist Dr. Samuel Blizzard, 40, who was commissioned two years ago by the Russell Sage Foundation to collaborate with Union Theological Seminary in "A Study of the Functions of the Parish Minister." Dr. Blizzard sent out some 1,600 detailed questionnaires to seven "panels of informants" in all but one (Nevada) of the 48 states, in every economic and social area, and from more than 20 major denominations...
Poll-Taker Blizzard found that the greatest single change in the ministry is caused by "the rapid shift that is being made from the life of the village and the countryside to the urbanized mass society." More than eight of the questionnaire's eleven pages were designed to draw out a ministerial self-portrait. From them Dr. Blizzard found that the ministers are asking themselves such questions...
Purpose of his project, says Dr. Blizzard, is to "face the realities of these ambiguities, to see in what way the seminary can give the minister the understanding and the tools with which to meet them...
Proper Climate. In Tulsa, the Jenkins appliance store filled its display windows with air conditioners, watched a blizzard drop temperatures from springlike warmth to a record low for the date, posted an abject apology: "Sorry for the change . . . We left one of those conditioners on over the weekend...
...famous counterattack which thrust the Germans back from Moscow in December 1941. Assigned to the Kursk front, he commanded the Second Ukrainian Army, which breached the German defenses and liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. In 1944 he won his greatest victory at Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, where in mud and blizzard his Soviet force encircled and destroyed ten German divisions. From there he went on to force the Dnieper, the Bug and the Dniester, and after liberating North Moldavia, his troops crossed Poland and became the first Russians to reach the Elbe, where his 58th Guards Division linked up with the U.S. 69th...