Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Therefore, we and our seed must have a care not to dwell among them. For, it shall be unto the University of Chicago and the University of California as it was unto Sodom and Gomorrah! Brethren, we must not withold our life-giving power, we must spread it broadcast throughout the wilderness to produce good fruit and choke these western weeds. Only Harvard can save; we must have a care for the cancer of heresy in these black and troubled times. Amen...
...extremely unfortunate that in your editorial of October 17th, endorsing Mr. Stevenson for President, you have to dwell at such length with what you consider Mr. Eisenhower's failures to have been, without examining his accomplishments, and without properly analyzing the candidate you are supporting...
...Chinese students and ex-students in the U.S. have received such letters, for they are a part of Peking's intensive campaign to woo the refugees back. Invariably they come from the students' families, who may not have written for years. They seldom dwell upon domestic trivialities, but upon the glories of the "New China" and the boundless opportunities to be found there. But the most frightening thing about them is not what they say; it is the fact that they are proof that Peking has discovered who and where the refugees are, and is pressuring relatives...
...typical and skillful Barkley rewrite of a reference to fit his particular point. The actual phrase (Psalms 84:10): "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the House of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness...
...public speeches, TV executives love to dwell on a golden future when audiences will eagerly absorb great cultural programs, and sponsors will rush to pay for them. To prove that they are at least surveying the road to this promised land, the networks every now and then hire a well-known litterateur to act as intellectual trailblazer. Three years ago, NBC joyfully announced the hiring of Pulitzer Prizewinning Dramatist Robert Sherwood. Nothing much came of it. Last week CBS hired another Pulitzer Prizewinner, Dramatist Sidney (Men in White, Detective Story) Kingsley, to be its resident cultural genius...