Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with, and in one sense, loftier than, what either he or the delegates had a right to expect. He wanted a "Pentecost," that is, a visitation of the Holy Spirit like that described in Acts 2:7-11. The fact that no such spectacular miracle occurred does not necessarily mean that the Holy Spirit was not present. For the definitive Christian conception of the Holy Spirit is that not of Acts but of the Apostle Paul. And the authentic proof of the Spirit's presence is not in flames of fire or "speaking with tongues" but in the "fruits...
...please leave us to our own interpretation of the works of Al Capp [TIME, Sept. 13]- undoubtedly the most brilliant satirist of our era. His genius defies interpretation . . . Like fine music, Capp's cartoons mean many things to many people. Don't spoil...
...even such an apparently foregone result did not mean that the campaign was going to go by default. President Harry Truman, who never says die, had roared out of Washington promising to "give 'em hell," and promptly proceeded to do so in one of the most inflammatory speeches he had delivered to date. Before the week was out, the September campaign circuits would be jammed with the trails of Alben Barkley, Henry Wallace, and the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond. The nation's cartoonists were already hard at work. Before Nov. 2, the air would be crisscrossed with...
...Palais de Chaillot this week came delegates to the third general session of the U.N. General Assembly. (Parisians called them "Les Onusiens" from Organisation des Nations Unies.)* Noticing a musee ferme sign on a glass door of the Palais, a Frenchman in overalls snarled: "What do they mean, 'museum closed?' What do they think is going on in there...
...eyes, fun-loving Mitty González looks like a French fashion plate. She was the first in Santiago to wear the New Look. But unlike Eva Perón, another South American style-setter, she cares little for politics. Says she: "Women's suffrage will not necessarily mean that every woman must run for office...