Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buzzing the Teterboro, N.J. Airport control tower, TV's humbly arrogant Arthur Godfrey buzzed himself into another jam with the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The charge: flying so close to an airliner over Chicago's Midway Airport that he forced the plane to reduce its speed. "Oh, for Christ's sake," cried Godfrey. "We certainly weren't endangering him. I merely dipped my wing to say hello. It's like tipping your hat. How close could I have been, if the pilot had to call the tower to ask the identification of my plane...
...another survey shows 53% unable to name even one of the Gospels. And a panel of 28 prominent Americans asked to rate the 100 most significant happenings in history, ranked Christ's crucifixion 4th (tied with the Wright brothers' flight and the discovery of X rays...
...they, too. are to be redeemed through Christ, this does not mean that the heavenly Logos must appear amongst them as it did in the history of mankind. It could be that the redemption through Christ could be preached to them by some messenger of the faith without [Christ] making any visible appearance to them. But it is also possible that God did not give these creatures any supernatural goal and that He determined for them natural perfection...
...offered in English. The congregation joined in prayer for the conversion of Russia. Bishop Sheen prayed that the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol "may be transfigured so that the sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors." ¶Peking Communist magazine, China Youth, admitted to its readers that religious believers offer a special problem to brainwashers. "People can break any idol, but this won't wash the divinity off the brain of religious followers," said the magazine. "This must be done through...
...benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes of wrath are stored. When he is not busy explaining that Christ and Tom Paine felt just .as he does, he repeats this phrase from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it obviously makes him feel like Abraham Lincoln...