Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...originated in the spring of 1990 in Burleson, Texas, when several public school students told youth minister Billy Beacham that they felt "burdened" by God to pray at their school flagpoles. Southern Baptist state youth evangelism coordinator Chuck Flowers decided to try a Texas-wide version that fall. Beacham remembers predicting 5,000 participants; 48,000 showed. The next year the event went countrywide, and the National Network, which acts as an information clearinghouse for some 100 youth evangelical groups, became involved. Says Clark: "It was like lighting dry brush with a match." The religion-tracking Barna Research Group tallied...
...that court, there was stunned silence, yet everywhere else at the Hokie's Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center there was a sense of normalcy. The top dog Tribe ripped apart Richmond while the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds--Kentucky and Virginia Commonwealth--cruised into the semifinals. Harvard was the only team missing...
...only shock was that the defeated faces on the other side of the net were not from Cambridge. VIRGINIA TECH, 5-2 at Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center, Blacksburg...
...repression soon took more concrete form. The Espionage Act, which took effect on June 5, 1917, put unprecedented powers in the hands of the federal government. It forbade anyone from interfering with military operations (a provision that was interpreted quite liberally) and empowered Postmaster General Albert Burleson to close the mail system to groups deemed subversive. Under the act's provisions, Burleson prevented more than a dozen socialist journals from circulating and blocked individual issues of a number of other magazines...