Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First is the strong conviction among many Syrians that Khaled Bakdash is prepared to invoke his Moscow training and try to unseat Old Friend Hourani when the time is ripe; if this fails, then Bakdash will dash back to Moscow. Second, and still more important, is the fact that...
...also annoyed by TV's common practice of raising the volume on the commercial. "I don't know what it's like in other families, but we finally had to put a rug in the TV room because there were so many falls in that mad dash to lower the set as soon as the commercial came on. Maybe somewhere in the country there is a viewer who reacts to that sudden rush of sound by saying, 'Darling, do watch this, isn't it fantastic what that razor will do to the hidden beard...
...exciting, responsible Protestant scholarship in our country? Is it not the American atmosphere which denies the worth of it rather than merely American Catholics? Disrespect for intellectual values belongs, alas, to all Americans, most especially to those bigoted Protestants who, knowing not of what they speak, nevertheless hasten to dash off letters to editors...
...Minneapolis for the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation. 56-year-old Bishop Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is now fully rehabilitated as Bishop of Budapest from the false charges of currency-law violations on which the Communists had jailed him in 1948. The six years of forced "retirement" after his release, when he supported his wife and four children by knitting, ended last October, and being free to preach the Gospel again "was like being given a cup of cold water when you are dying of thirst." The congregations who listened to him had changed...
...Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine of the Claretian Missionary Fathers. With a few exceptions, he writes in the current issue, the formula is classic: "Take priest, mix in dash of sex with preposterous plot. Hollywood reads. Hollywood buys...