Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find the prettiest girl in a nation whose succulent peaches and sour lemons are often wrapped alike in the veils and Mother Hubbards of Islamic modesty is no easy matter. But the founders of Pakistan's Beauty Pageant Association, whose mission was to find a Miss Pakistan shapely enough to carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct...
...kept by U.S. revenooers, from dividends and sale of stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly chat with Charlie. But the mission seems doomed to fail; unless Chaplin antes up the debt voluntarily (most unlikely), there is little of his left in the U.S. to grab besides some old derbies, canes and turned-up brogans...
...September 1953, Lenshina Mulenga walked into the Church of Scotland's Lubwa mission, about eight miles away from Kasomo. She was there, she said, because she had recently died; she had been about to cross the river into heaven when God stopped her and told her to go back and teach her people to give up witchcraft and repent their sins. She should go to Lubwa, said the Almighty, to be taught and baptized...
...Strange Whistling. The Presbyterian mission named her "Alice" and duly sent a native evangelist back to Kasomo with her, and the villagers began to flock to her hut. Soon she had another word from God. There were two books, He told her, one for whites and one for blacks, and the black book was the right one. Once again Lenshina appeared in Lubwa, this time to demand the use of the mission church to preach in. When the missionaries turned her down, she went back to her village with the story that the missionaries had stolen her African book...
...black man's Christianity. In the clearing behind her hut she collected them, 500 or more at a time, ordered them on pain of death to close their eyes and listen to the voice of the Almighty-a strange, whistling noise. Spies from a nearby Roman Catholic mission risked opening their eyes and reported that Lenshina merely stepped behind a tree and blew a whistle...