Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal to raise $8,000,000 in 20 months for the construction of 300 new churches by 1956. Chief questions: 1) Could local churches stand their shares of the strain? 2) Once they were built, would the new churches be sure to stay in the denomination, or would they drift away from total-immersion baptism into open membership, or become "community" churches? The fund was voted, after delegates were assured, by an amendment, that the new congregations will be "definitely related to the American Baptist Convention...
...first heat, somebody discovered that no flag had been provided to mark the finish. By some feverish activity with a penknife and a hammer a suitable flag was hurried together from a piece of canvas and a lath. And when the tide changed, the judges' barge itself began to drift downstream, so that between races the pile of crates which constituted the judges' stand had to be moved bodily from one end of the barge to the other...
...insisted on telling the voters the chill realities they did not want to hear,--that peace "could not drift down from the skies like soft snow." His speeches were courageous, honest, responsible. But they were political suicide...
...Second Reformation. By then, Mary and Bernarr were beginning to drift apart. It was all very well for him to dream, as he slept on the floor encased in "The Macfadden Body-Free Blanket Rib," of becoming the "first Physical Culture President of the United States," but Mary blanched at the thought of becoming known as the "Constantly Pregnant First Lady." She had borne him four daughters under the "no-doctors" rules of Macfadden birthmanship, and now he felt that four sons (conceived by following the Macfadden rules of sex determination) would nicely round off "The Perfect Family." Mary obliged...
Only complete familiarity with the list can throttle enrollment in these front organizations. The majority sound like all-American groups; most of them are not. But because their communist cores are not always apparent, many people drift into them unknowingly. For example, many groups that collected foreign aid during the war appear on the list. Giving them donations was tantamount to permanent membership, and the charitable are now considered subversives. In cases like this, the innocent can not escape, even if they do realize their mistake, for they are too late to remove the label, "Loyalty risk...