Word: missionizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's end, Adenauer went before the Bundestag to ask formal approval of his mission. "In extraordinarily difficult negotiations, we have made of a given situation what was humanly and politically possible," he said. Uneasy and largely silent, the Bundestag unanimously approved Adenauer's deal...
...bases. Instead, it can establish itself in any sheltered body of water within 1,000 miles of the enemy target. The few supplies that it will need can be brought by submarine, if necessary, and enemy reconnaissance would have a hard time spotting such a sketchy "base" before the mission is completed. The next strike could be based on a different bay or lagoon...
...biggest (and crassest) lapel-clutch introductions a film ever had-Bogart, in clerical black, is seen staggering on-camera across the wastes of up-country China, a backward look of terror on his face and a wicked-looking .45 in his hand. He soon comes to a mission outpost, where he is welcomed as the new man the bishop promised to send. And yet, as the doctor's wife (Agnes Moorehead) prattles to her husband (E. G. Marshall), "there seems to be so much in him that wasn't intended to be a priest." One look at Bogart...
...cherish an affection for the Eiffel Tower . . . who loathe crossing a frontier without smuggling something just to be doing it but dislike not being legally en règle . . . and finally, who are delighted when one of their great men talks to them of their greatness, their great civilizing mission ... but who dream of nothing except to retire, after a pleasant little life, to a quiet little corner . . . with a little wife who will be satisfied with inexpensive little dresses...
...peculiar mission of the University," Pusey said, "and of all professions which have their roots within the University, to believe in principle, yes--but also to have the skill, the knowledge, and the will to work for increased understanding...