Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace of highway construction. What further fired Maine's independent-minded voters was Muskie's straightforward eggheadedness (Bates '36, Phi Beta Kappa), his ability to discuss convincingly ethical and moral questions. In his campaign he had only to bear down hard on his record, spread his gospel-tagged with a surefire slogan: "One good term deserves another...
...Spread of the Gospel faces serious obstacles. "In spite of some encouragement," there is as yet no "convincing evidence of a widespread revival of religion." And to make evangelism harder, "There is, also, a recrudescence of some of the ancient faiths [i.e., Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Shintoism] often associated with nationalistic fervor, and threatening to put obstacles in the way of the church's work . . . There is the greatest need for the rethinking of missionary strategy, and for devising new methods of cooperation." But while new methods of evangelism are desirable, "the finest, best-tempered and most certain instrument of evangelism...
...skating, etc. The latter sport, called artistic and executed in public, we consider absolutely scandalous, rejectable and forbidden if girls do not wear bloomers reaching below their knees . . . Finally, instruct the faithful that nudism in all its forms is the devilish effort of paganism, that the spirit of the Gospel never will be reconciled to the lying, hypocritical stratagems of the world, the devil and the flesh...
EVER since the mournful 1928 presidential-election showing of New York's Al Smith (87 electoral votes v. 444 for Herbert Hoover), the Democratic Party has generally accepted as political gospel this proposition: a Roman Catholic is a fatal liability on a national ticket and is therefore not to be considered...
...experts on diets and reducing are in a tizzy. For years they had been preaching the gospel that the only way to reduce is to cut down the amount of fuel (expressed as the number of calories) stoked into the body. And to do this they nearly always recommend cutting down most drastically on fats, sugars and starches, allowing an almost unlimited intake of low-fat protein foods such as lean meats, cottage cheese. The current ruckus was started by what seemed like a heretical doctrine coming from, of all places, one of the nation's most tradition-encrusted...