Word: evangelist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey, who cut his political teeth on New Deal oratory in the Depression '30s, sparked like a mountain evangelist to the bleak depression in West Virginia's coal counties. He slashed the Republicans for indifference, flicked Kennedy for his wealth, reminded his listeners that he, too, had been a poor boy. "American politics are far too important to belong to the moneyman." he said on Milton's Main Street. "I want to bring back politics to the people, to Main Street." In Hamlin he rose to a high for hokum: "They...
Long-Distance Advice. Paul was not only an evangelist; he made himself responsible for the long-distance administration of the churches he had founded, and this was a staggering task at a time when every problem was a new one. The problems of the church in Corinth alone included rituals, interfaith relations, millennialism, litigation, sexual irregularity, diet, women's dress and relations between slaves and masters, Christians and pagans...
...host of doctors who through the years have attributed to the plant 300 diseases ranging from impotence to bad eyesight. Long before cancer became a cry, cigarettes were known as "coffin nails." Henry Ford and Thomas Edison vowed that they would not knowingly hire anyone who smoked. In 1918 Evangelist Billy Sunday cried triumphantly: "Prohibition is won; now for tobacco!" In earlier days, the feeling against smoking by women was so strong that when Carmen came to Kansas before World War I, it was presented against a backdrop showing a dairy instead of a cigarette factory?and Carmen herself walked...
...exciting week for Evangelist Billy Graham on his African "Safari for Souls'"-crocodiles awaited him on one side, fixed bayonets on the other...
...Ball Game." In Chingola, Northern Rhodesia, a mob of more than 100 stone-throwing natives tried to break up a meeting led by Graham's assistant, Evangelist Grady Wilson, and in Kitwe rumors spread that the police would shoot down Africans at the rally. Over a burst of catcalls and whistles, Evangelist Wilson appealed to the crowd: "There are people here who need Christ. This is not a ball game or a political rally-it's a church service, and I ask for silence...