Word: hymning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Midway through his second two-year term, he returned to A.J. Fletcher's WRAL. "The old man," says Bailey, "thought the sun rose and set right behind Jesse's left ear." WRAL, that hymn-and-hog-price 250-watter, was now Capitol Broadcasting, an empire embracing the radio outlet, Raleigh's first TV station and a hookup of about 70 rural stations called the Tobacco Radio Network. Fletcher piled three executive titles on Helms and let him do the station's editorials...
...rockers' driving, heavy beat sub sided. The roar of the synthesizers, the wailings of the guitars and the tom-tom tripping of the drummer were hushed as the chorus picked up a folk tune that sweetly blended, with no perceptible transition, into an Orthodox hymn...
...morning: Outside the Ford dealership, the guys from Gadlock's crew are getting ready to leave. The dealership has been opened extra late to accomodate crowds. Inside you can hear Elvis doing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" over the Delco system. Another one of those haunted Civil War songs. One by one the flourescent lights go out. There's a weird orange sodium vapor lamp glow over the city ten miles away. The cicadas are going crazy in the heat. It is terribly still and terribly wide open. There's been a bag lady outside the window all night...
...England. Thomas McCormack, president of St. Martin's Press, thought they could be something more across the pond. He combined the books and added three chapters, ending with the marriage of the young vet and the farmer's daughter. The new title came from an Anglican hymn: All Creatures Great and Small. The rest is history, geography and mathematics. The book hit bestseller lists before the reviews were in. Herriot went on to prove that despite his obscure locale and inarticulate subjects, the right story teller could make a Yorkshire cow a moveable beast. Today some...
...downtown Shanghai, a standing-room-only congregation of 800 packs the handsome brick Church of Abundant Grace. After a resounding rendition in Chinese of the hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, worshipers listen as Pastor Li Wentsai exhorts them to "abide in Jesus"continually, not just on Sundays. The church is one of five Protestant churches in Shanghai, and more than 100 nationwide, that have just been reopened...