Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absolution: "Dost thou believe that my forgiveness is God's forgiveness?" (Penitent answers yes). "As thou believest, so shall it come to pass. By command of our Lord Jesus Christ I forgive thee thy sins in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Go in peace."† Despite Luther; the practice of confession became increasingly stereotyped, was finally abandoned in the 17th century. Last week its revival was a major topic in Lutheran Germany. The occasion was this year's Kirchentag in Munich (TIME, Aug. 24), where no fewer than 2,000 Protestants went...
...Thin. The swiftest and most profitable shift from planes to missiles was made by the Martin Co., simply because it had no choice. It was either that or go broke. When George Bunker, a corporate rescue expert, took over as boss in 1952, the company was deep in the hole (1951 loss: $22 million.). Bunker easily saw that Martin had no future in planemaking. He shifted into missiles and electronics, busily worked to get dozens of Government contracts that looked none too inviting to other companies, because the profit was less than on commercial business. Now Martin has contracts...
...Horse Heaven Hill, "the new 1959 Zane Grey novel," will bring instant recognition from the fans of such vintage Grey as Wild Horse Mesa and Riders of the Purple Sage. The prose clomps along on two-by-four stilts ("There was completed in his mind a resolve to go down into Idaho, when opportunity afforded"), and the dialogue echoes a tin-plated ear ("If you think I'm wonderful and if I think you're wonderful-it's all really very wonderful, isn't it?"). Instead of speaking their lines, characters "vouchsafe" them; they wash...
...France and there seek a ship more to his liking. While searching, Jones in Ranger conducted raids on the English and Scottish coasts and became the terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...
Miss America Pageant (CBS, 10-12 p.m.). For all those who can stand it once more, the bathing beauties will go through the fiction that they also have other massive talents. Cliff ("Charlie Weaver") Arquette as Grand Marshal may make it all worthwhile...