Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man, Vincent Van Gogh, the son of a Calvinist minister, worked as a lay preacher among the poor coal miners of Belgium. At 26 he was dismissed by church authorities because his methods were too unorthodox (e.g., he gave his money, his clothes, even his bed to his flock). But for the rest of his short (1853-90), tormented life, Van Gogh's art showed a religious fervor that made his work leap from the canvas into the heart...
...ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided that what he needed was a working-class appeal. He began buttonholing members of his infidel flock and telling them: "The essence of Christianity is work-material as well as spiritual. Why, Christ himself was a worker for 30 of his 33 years." Somewhat to his surprise, a few of the infidels listened...
...R.O.T.C. college graduates, educated at Navy expense and eligible this year for regular commissions, only 10% applied. Said former Joint Chiefs Chairman Omar Bradley, at a congressional hearing last July: "If you removed today the prohibition against resigning from the [Regular] service, I think you would find a whole flock of resignations coming...
Marshalling their bureaucratic ingenuity, the Registrar's Office, the Dean's Office and the Alumni records Office have over the years concocted a scheme skillfully designed to keep track of their flock. A relatively simple plan, it requires 12 cards in 12 different filing cabinets spread through eight offices, for each of the 10,000 students in the university and works something like this...
Rats & Dear Old Ladies. Many of the students felt that big-city Protestant churches were overdue for a change of attitude. "Fear of new groups seems to be the handicap to church expansion in some cases," said Paul Mehl, 25, of Union Theological Seminary. "Workingmen don't flock to support a church abounding with prejudices, traditions, and dear old ladies who call it 'their' church...