Word: haloing
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...Both a halo and a forked tail go with the headline-catching role of chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Every chairman from Martin Dies on has been a white knight to part of the public, an inquisitorial fiend in the eyes of another part. By last week the new committee chairman, Illinois' Harold Himmel Velde, had managed to dent his halo and seemed firmly hitched to his forked tail. Velde's trouble: too much talk, too little caution, not enough political horse sense...
...under the protection of our Navy and our Air Force. The hat was not made to order, according to English standards. It did not fit him at all. But Tito waddled over the island, proud as a dog with two tails, for the hat had come like a halo from his Russian heaven...
Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...
...water rushing skyward-drawn up the column by that tremendous unseen force. The column went up & up and finally mushroomed. About three minutes* later, the report, like a nearby cannon shot, hit us and was followed by several seconds of dull rumbling. Then the mushroom expanded into a free halo, growing with tornado-like speed and reaching nearly over our ship before it appeared to cease growing. Then it appeared to connect itself to the main column by a web of filmy vapor. Typical comment from the oldtimers: 'Holy cow. That sure makes the A-bomb a runt...
Billy's theology is plain, pointed and graphic. Like a Biblical Baedeker, he takes his listeners strolling down Pavements of Gold, introduces them to a rippling-muscled Christ who resembles Charles Atlas with a halo, then drops them abruptly into the Lake of Fire for a sample scalding. His language is a strange, original blend of farm-boy idiom, Shakespeare, the New Testament and the newest slang. Sample Grahamism, aimed at those who protest that they were raised in good Christian homes, therefore don't need to be "converted": "Just because you were born in a garage, does...