Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jostled and stepped on, but with luck he may emerge clinging to a lukewarm cup of coffee. The real casualties are those who push to the front of a stand to discover that only Cokes are sold there. Although the fast stepper may return in time to hear the Band's final fanfare, most of those waiting below don't realize there is such a thing as a second-half kickoff...
This reaction is much like the antics of those monkeys that hear, see, and speak no evil. By avoiding a problem, they seem to think it will disappear. Even accepting these colleges' narrow belief that only communists advocate recognition of China, the refusal to argue the issue is inexcusable. When it is no longer possible to present both sides of a topic, there is not climate of fear, but an actual freezing of thought...
...Hitler's former stadium in Berlin. In England, where religion has long been in decline, 2.000,000 people last spring came in penitent droves, and 38,447 pledged themselves as converts. Even when they do not understand his language or share his American tradition, people flock to hear him speak short sentences to be echoed in their own language by an interpreter. In Scandinavia, Finland, Holland. Germany and France this summer, 296,600 came. Since 1949, Billy Graham has preached personally to 12 million people and brought 200,000 of them to various stages of Christian commitment...
...manner, Billy Graham has come a long way from the Los Angeles days when he billed himself as "America's Sensational Young Evangelist" in a "Mammoth Tent Crusade" with "Glorious Music, Dazzling Array of Gospel Talent, 22 Tremendous Nights." Today's ads consist mainly of the words "Hear Billy Graham," plus a picture. Says Jerry Beavan ("pronounced like heaven"), Graham's 31-year-old public-relations man: "When you see an advertisement for a Cadillac, it just says Cadillac and shows you a picture. Billy is like a Cadillac. We don't have to explain...
Once inside the Inquiry Tent, the assembled converts hear a brief inspirational talk by Grady Wilson, Graham's boyhood friend and now billed as his "Associate Evangelist." Billy himself often drops in for a few words, and then each counselor really goes.to work. There are "B Rations" (Bible leaflets) at every seat, and most of the counselors have learned by heart the rations' Bible verses. But his final job is to fill out a card about his "baby Christian," stating his name, address, occupation, age, church membership or preference. On each card there are also four categories...