Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Madame Chiang had arrived in the U.S., it had been obvious that her mission was going badly. She was the guest of Mrs. George Marshall at Leesburg, Va., and had twice gone to Walter Reed Hospital to see the Secretary of State. But, as far as anyone knew, her old friend George Marshall had held to his stern decision that there was nothing more which the U.S. could or should do to help China now-a decision reinforced by the fact that Chinese Nationalists had surrendered 236,000 rifles, 14,000 machine guns and 26,000 tommy guns...
...mourners' bench nor sawdust trail, no Bible-banging nor marimba band. The middle-aged women and young people who came to hear Evangelist Green merely rose to their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some good old-fashioned preaching from the pulpit...
Many a New York Episcopal clergyman has been staggered by Green's prodigious energy. Ever since he arrived last month, he has seemed to be everywhere at once in the teeming, 170-parish diocese. On the opening day of his mission, he thought nothing of preaching seven times in six different churches...
...Kiss & a: Kick. The Merry-Go-Round's complex and contradictory pilot regards himself as a man with a mission; he thinks of himself as the conscience of government, a Vigilante riding herd on Washington...
Among these are the spirit of community, the principle of universal compulsory service, the "sense of mission of Moscow as bearer of a new conception of life," and the capacity for large scale state-organized economic development...