Word: hippos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thereafter, the "gift of the Holy Ghost" came to be associated with glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, (TIME, Aug. 15) and was sometimes thought to be conferred by baptism or the laying on of hands. St. Augustine of Hippo (354/430) taught that the gift of the Holy Spirit could only be present in the unity of the church, that outsiders could not receive Him. But Martin Luther (1483-1546) took no account at all of the "fellowship of the Spirit." The Holy Ghost, he thought, descended upon one man and not another with no rational explanation ("Faith killeth reason...
...African headman at the farm's sisal-processing plant. "He is too powerful, and you cannot change him." But Tom Mboya recalls how riled he was at the sight of the stern estate manager, whom the Africans in fear called Bwana Kiboko-the boss who carries the hippo-skin whip...
...into action at her command were a score of Hollywood refugees, ranging from Novelist and sometime Scriptwriter Aldous Huxley (6 ft. 4 in., 143½ Ibs.), who looked like a long, gaunt crane, to 341-lb., 6 ft. 2½ in. Actor Victor Buono, who looked like a healthy hippo. As they puffed around the swimming pool to the recorded strains of the River Kwai March or splashed through the 'Balinese Water Dance" to the tune of the Volga Boatman, they were all pursuing the traditional Hollywood ideal of a wealthy mind in a healthy (or at least good...