Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State on his first official visit to Moscow, Kremlin leaders fume as they hear yet another rhetorical outpouring about human rights from Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America's southern cone-bristle at Washington's finger pointing. Even...
With some of her new characters -like Sister Boogie Woman-the possession seems complete. Sister Boogie Woman is a Southern evangelist, and when she's got the boogie she shakes like a palm tree in a hurricane. What's boogie? Let her tell...
...band of pious students at Williams College got caught in a thundershower, huddled under a haystack to keep dry and held a prayer meeting. By the time the downpour ceased they had vowed to carry the Christian message overseas. One of them eventually became a pioneer evangelist to India while others helped create the U.S.'s first two foreign mission boards...
...Center for Disease Control announces that the swine flu vaccine causes phlebitis and orders former President Richard M. Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham quarantined...
After receiving the vision, Presbyterian Bright became a lay evangelist at U.C.L.A. He concentrated on gaining converts who would influence other students-athletes, political activists, beauty queens. His Campus Crusade spread quickly to other U.S. universities (currently 426) and beyond. Its slogan became "Today the campus, tomorrow the world." The staff now numbers 5,300, of whom 1,100 are foreign nationals working in their own countries (84 of them). Among recent staff recruits is Ralph Drollinger, a 7-ft. 2-in. basketball center from U.C.L.A., who passed up pro bids to join the crusade's Athletes in Action...