Word: lifting
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...Presbyterians set up the Labor Temple in New York City as "a special mission to workingmen." In 1908, about 30 Protestant denominations formed the Federal Council of Churches, which announced its allegiance "to the toilers of America and to those who by organized effort are seeking to lift the crushing burdens of the poor." Until the outbreak of World War I, the 20th century was an exuberant time. As Congregationalist Minister Gaius Glenn Atkins remembers: "The people were ready [to conquer] 'the World for Christ in this Generation.' The air was full of banners." How Christ would react...
...enough to attract major retailers, who have a heavy investment in their own credit setups. President M. E. Arnett of Los Angeles' Bullock's Magnin suggests that at a 2½% discount department stores might well join up. Meantime, bank cards are helping many small shopkeepers to lift their sales-to the discomfiture of their competitors...
...provide popular support for the demand against invasion and to interpret it to large number of people. It is clear that a series of complementary activities would be generated by any program of large-scale arrests, and that through the crises of arrests a spirit could be generated to lift people out of their lethargv. It is even possible, though not probable, that the kind of national crisis which could be created before the fact would force Johnson to back down...
Municipal elections ordinarily carry little political importance in Chile, but President Eduardo Frei chose to lift last week's to the status of a national plebiscite. "It will be an opportunity," he said, "for the nation to say whether it is with the opposition or with the President it elected to carry out institutional reforms." Chileans took the opportunity, all right, but the results were not what Frei and just about everyone else had expected. While each of Chile's six other parties made substantial gains at the polls, Frei's Christian Democrats lost ground...
Eight Sites. The January fire blew NASA's schedule to bits. Before the ac cident, things were going so well that a tentative date and minute for the moon-probe lift-off had been set: February 1, 1968, at 10:35 a.m. Now it looks as if the first manned test flight will just be going up then, a full year late. That does not necessarily mean a year's delay in trying for the moon, however. Since spacecraft, rocket and other production will continue throughout the coming year despite the lack of manned missions, Apollo equipment will...