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Word: pastoralism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusty country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Of Greed & Guilt | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Indignant, the pastor took the name and address of the greedy farmer. Next Sunday he told his congregation that a farmer in his parish had taken a gold wedding ring from the mother of five hungry children for 60 lbs. of potatoes, denounced the action as a disgrace. If the guilty man did not bring him the ring, said the pastor, he would announce his name from the pulpit the following Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Of Greed & Guilt | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Before Sunday came, the pastor had received eight gold wedding rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Of Greed & Guilt | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Pastor to Painter. As his worshipers knew him, Fuseli was "a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressing gown tied round his waist with a piece of rope." Brought up to be a Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forgotten Pyramid | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Beside the members of his husky flock, pint-sized (5 ft. 2½ in.), bookish Pastor Burger looks even smaller than he is. But he has a voice that can outshout any of them, and he knows how to use a picka-roon to nudge the four-foot "blocks" from their great stacks into the river, and how to help sluice them through the dams with a pike pole. "Wish I had a soft job," the men sometimes yell at him when he comes by in his red and black checked jacket; but they laugh when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preacher in the Woods | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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