Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 2,000 church members crowded into the church. The photographers poised their flashlight bulbs. The parson's wife stepped to an oil lamp and held the mortgage contract over the chimney. In less than a minute, one of the tidiest church mortgages in the country (from a banker's viewpoint) was a crisp char of expensive ashes. The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles was free of debt, and the banks and other mortgagors owned $750,000 less of the more than $500,000,000 they now hold in U.S. church mortgages...
...seventh birthday morning last week, Iraq's dark-skinned child King Feisal was told to listen hard to the radio. What he heard sent him tearing to the roof of his Bagdad Palace. There, in a stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed...
...became a preacher, but there was more music in him than preaching. When Benjamin Hanby died at 33, he had written 75 songs. Two others are still sung today: a children's Christmas song, Up on the Housetop (Up on the housetop, click, click, click; Down through the chimney with good St. Nick), and the hymn Who Is He?, included in the hymnal of the Church of England in Canada...
...shabby Kentucky cabin with a floor of packed-down dirt, a door swung on leather hinges and a stick-clay chimney, a boy was born with the help of an old midwife named Peggy Walters. The boy was Abraham Lincoln, who devoted his life, against terrible odds, to justice, humanity and freedom...
Soon after 9 a.m. six Army planes hedgehopped over the city, blew dead leaves from the trees in yellow showers, strafed the airport. An indignant housewife called police headquarters, complained that a plane had almost hit her chimney. Replied Police Chief Ernest