Word: lank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathered at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; elsewhere by smaller gatherings in perhaps 500 U. S. cities. To the Manhattan luncheon meeting went the British and Belgian Ambassadors to the U. S., the French Consul General, the Netherlands Minister, many a churchman. Chairman was that best-beloved of bumbling speakers, lank Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church (who attributes his oratorical lack to the fact that for 25 years as a missionary he preached in Japanese only...
...explanation of Niemöller's militancy was offered by lank, twinkling-eyed Karl Barth, Swiss-born theologian who greatly influenced the Confessional group before his exile from Germany. Barth, famed for his gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...