Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down from Putney, Vt. traveled Vermont's four-term liberal Republican Senator George Aiken, 66, on a presession mission to Washington. The mission: to raise a new flag of G.O.P. liberal revolt against the G.O.P.'s right-wing Senate leadership...
...five years, a three-time loser, he joined the drift of strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned up in Chester. His mission: switching White's workers from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to a shadowy, thug-ridden outfit called the Interstate Industrial Union. Last week, after White fired a few employees who were collaborating with Dugan. Intruder Dugan set up a picket line outside the plant...
Tommy O'Driscoll, the fictional hero of The Prospects Are Pleasing, is a rachitic young Dublin clerk who dreams of being "the Anointed, the Victim, and, at the same time, the Hero" in the "march for a free Ireland." Dispatched to London on a secret mission to recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once...
Both Russia and Japan started programs of technical advancement by rejecting Christianity; and in the process they had to set up new absolutes. In Russia the idea of the Kingdom of God was transformed into the vision of the classless society; Japan instituted emperor-worship and the messianic mission of the Japanese people. Bishop Newbigin believes that technical culture is not religiously neutral. If it does not keep its roots in the Christian faith, it will have to find a new absolute, and will become demonic...
...Chinese missionary situation is only one of a multiplicity of problems confronting the Christian world mission effort, Newbigin continued. The biggest present difficulty of the mission is a kind of evolutionary dislocation of the effort's effectiveness, since the sources of distribution and wealth have changed without compensation...