Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic thunder sounded two years ago, some Christians have been poring over the Book of Revelation, searching for portents and parallels. "Apocalyptic" has become an easy and much overworked word. But to theologians, the possibility-and perhaps imminence-of the world's destruction poses a number of grave questions." In the current issue of the Reinhold Niebuhr-edited quarterly, Christianity & Society, two U.S. theologians struggle with some of these questions. Writes Religion Professor W. Burnet Easton Jr. of Lawrence College...
...wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...
...local morning papers, Hearst's Examiner and the Los Angeles Times, the invasion posed no grave threat. But readers who were prepared to pay the steep prices (25? a day, 50? Sundays, $8.50 a month) could now get "All the News That's Fit to Print" on the day when it was news. Next move planned by the Times, which flies 12,000 copies a day to 28 Eastern and Midwestern U.S. cities: air delivery all along the West Coast, and possibly home delivery...
...odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman who had flown upside down to America, Edna had broadcast on the In Town Tonight program, become vice president of a Wild Life Society, opened a flower show and secured her legacy...
...Durant, Miss, at the throttle of the Illinois Central Railroad's locomotive No. 638, yelled across the cab at Webb: "Oh, Sim! The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight!" The occasion for this reminiscence: the unveiling of a monument on Casey's grave, for 47 years marked only by a wooden cross...