Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black evangelist was sewed up inside a tom-tom and starved to death while drummers pounded incessantly on the skin top. The bodies of several other Christians have been found buried up to their necks in sand, their heads swarming with ants. According to some reports, more than 130 native Protestant pastors and lay church leaders have been assassinated in the landlocked African republic of Chad since last November...
...shake-up is undeniably Gonçalves, 53, a quick-tempered, idealistic former army engineer who is widely regarded as the principal architect of the April 25th revolution. Says one longtime political observer in Lisbon: "Gonçalves has about him a little bit of the style of the evangelist missionary who is committed to saving people's souls whether they want...
...good guys (read liberal or revolutionary) for a change. We should, as a matter of principle, put an end to our deadly Tinker Toy games of setting up and knocking down other people's governments. (The Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus Church of St. John the Evangelist (Lutheran) Co-Founder, Clergy and Laity Concerned New York City Lifting Mexico's Veil...
Fine Spirits. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, Betty Ford awoke to find three bouquets of flowers at her bedside-all from her husband. She walked across the hall to a sitting room to join Nancy Howe and the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelist from Grand Rapids and a longtime friend of the family who had flown down in the middle of the night to do what he could. At 6:30 a.m., Susan and Michael arrived to cheer their mother up, but she was already in fine spirits. Mrs. Ford laughed about her toeless white operating-room socks. Said...
...reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing at the air in the style of a barnstorming evangelist. Judy Dater--another photographer--glances down with daydreaming eyes and a half smile as she stretches out her long black hair with her fingers. Her portraits of Martha Graham are studies in extension and complete muscular control, but Imogen captures the dancer most effectively in a close...