Word: ica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century, "that voices will be raised declaring that the gates of heaven cannot be stormed by mass assault, and they are right. But the point is irrelevant. In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible. Christ wills the conversion of Amer ica. Of that we can be sure. But do we desire it above everything else? Are the churches prepared to risk it? When Christ wins America every local church will be transformed, every community changed, every denomination identified with the larger life of the ecumenical church. Did those who launched this...
...McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo-tombo-rombo, who drowned in a well, wherefore his brother Yip became king...
...been visited by at least one TIME subscriber. Before the war 99,000 of you had been to the islands of the Pacific; sometime after V-J Day 397,000 of you plan to go there. Eighty-six thousand of you have already flown or sailed to South Amer ica; some day after the war 354,000 of you hope to take off for the Spanish Main! More than 250,000 of you have been to Europe, some of you many times; now, sooner or later, some 482,000 of you expect to cross the Atlantic -and that is actually...
Since Mexico for centuries was a cultural crossroads between two continents, its art is actually the native art of Amer ica. To eyes accustomed to European art (notably the 39 U.S. delegates who ar rived in Mexico City last week for the Inter-American Conference), it is some times shocking - sometimes repulsive...
...recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...