Word: oda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten a világot, hogy egy szülött Fiát adta oda"). When Graham concluded by asking the Hungarians to signal their rededication to Jesus Christ, thousands of arms were raised in response...
...politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles. "This room you see here," Hideyoshi would tell his guests as he gave them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes...
Beheiren's founder is Novelist Makoto Oda, 38. He launched the new wave...
...dissent two years ago in Sasebo Harbor, where he circled the U.S. carrier Enterprise in a small launch, calling out "Don't fight for Uncle Sham!" on a megaphone. If Oda's style has a familiar American quality, it may be due to the fact that he once studied at Harvard, on a Fulbright scholarship...