Word: haystacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds broke over the countryside around Williamstown, Mass.. five Williams College students out for a walk scurried for the shelter of a haystack. There, while the rain droned on, they earnestly discussed three topics: religion, Asia, and their future. Before the storm ended on that summer day in 1806, they had decided to dedicate themselves to the work of bringing the Gospel "to a barricaded heathendom" in foreign lands...
...form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which started the last century's mass movement of U.S. Protestant missionaries to the world. Last week 17 Protestant ministers from the lands reached by American missionaries met at Williams College to mark the 150th anniversary of the haystack meeting. Their topic: "America's new role in the world church." That role has sharply changed from the condescension toward the "heathen" of the five Williams students. In a joint message, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church have put it thus: "Plainly, a deep-going reorientation in the method...
...kids and the missus had just set down to eat when we heard an explosion and seen a flash of light in the sky out through the window. I run out into the yard, and there was another explosion. It looked like a haystack on fire...
...prickly pain of petty jealousies. Into Phil's, life there comes a mature woman (Edwige Feuillère) who at length welcomes him, curious, experimental and bold, to her bed. Having taught the boy how to be a man, she gently sends him back to Vinca. In a haystack, the boy and girl fumble at love and, as the summer wanes and they prepare to return to Paris, realize that they have sadly closed the door on childhood. Director Claude Autant-Lara, who covered somewhat the same ticklish territory in Devil in the Flesh (TIME, March 21, 1949), this...
Fire in the Woods. Sixteen miles farther on, scenting danger (by then there was a price on their heads and 12.000 Vopos were looking for them), the Czechs hid in a haystack, foraging at night for food. One day they heard a man's voice; the man was saying that he knew the refugees were hidden near by and that he was going to inform the police. Then a woman's voice: "Why, for the sake of heaven above, do you want to do that...