Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Addressing the first evening rally in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Billy Graham set the tone of the meeting for the cheering crowd: "We are here to say to the world that Christian youth are now on the march, and we're going to keep marching until millions of people are brought into the kingdom...
...mornings the zealots attended training sessions in 65 locations around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the afternoons they participated in seminars or wandered among the booths that 206 evangelical groups had set up in the exhibition halls of State Fair Park surrounding the Cotton Bowl. Not all the groups who had booths were of the straight, nonpolitical type characteristic of Campus Crusade. One called the People's Christian Coalition was more radical in its approach to the Gospel, and caused a ruckus at a midweek meeting when some of its members joined with Mennonites to hold...
...didn't know if somebody was going to knife you. Here it's full of love." In Dallas' nightclub district, barflies were amazed to find the young evangelists offering them Bright's mustard-yellow pamphlets. A policeman working amid the crowds at the Cotton Bowl said in bewilderment, "I must have gotten bumped 3,000 times, and every time the person said 'Pardon...
They pried the paneling off Conforti's walls, tore up his living room furniture, ripped away aluminum siding, prodded patio tiles loose and dug gaping trenches across the yard. The agents even smashed a toilet bowl to see if the money might be between the inner and outer casings. As the demolition continued, neighbors gathered by the dozens; a Good Humor man pulled up; children peeked in the windows. The agents went on ripping, tearing and pounding things for nearly 24 hours...
...died in infancy, Kaufman grew up to be a devout hypochondriac. He ate oatmeal nearly every day of his life; he hated casual human contact and touching doorknobs. One of his many mistresses recalls that when she once innocently tasted his soup in a restaurant, Kaufman promptly ordered another bowl. When she asked him how he could kiss her, Kaufman replied, "Well, Miss S., your tasting my soup was one kind of risk. My kissing you was another. Let's concentrate on the second...