Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil Theory. The roadblocks stayed put. A proud Japan chose to make war; a confused China floundered into the hands of the Communist undertakers. "In each country the United States set out to preach a doctrine of peace, freedom, and plenty; yet in each country it left a gospel of might, efficiency, organization, violence, and face." Stung by the unexpected, many Americans invoked the "devil" theory of history, i.e., villains sabotaged Uncle Sam's good intentions. Reading between the headlines, Maurer sees instead the serene profiles of two old Chinese sages of the 6th Century B.C., whom the West...
Something of a Martyr. A fortnight ago they ordered him to stop his campus preaching. Phelps moved across the road, off campus, and kept on preaching. Principal Turrell warned him again. "He accosted me in very stern language," says Phelps, "and told me that he would call the law. So I told him I had no fears. If the police arrested me I would preach to them in jail...
...exact position this dignified woman holds in the town; but at one time it was believed she owned has its property. Now she owns nothing but a big shingled house which overlooks the surrounding country. Here she keeps her art treasures from all over the world and continues to preach the ideals which she has been following since 1899, when she bought Dana Hall...
Harold Ockenga has kept the old fires burning. Shocked at the goings-on under Boston Common's shadowy trees during the long summer evenings, he made it a practice to preach from the Parkman bandstand after his regular vesper services. When city authorities refused to renew his permit, he had an outdoor pulpit built on to the church, from which he and his assistants regularly address the Common's assortment of bums, tarts, sailors, tourists and Harvard boys...
Dean Hess, a studious lad from Marietta, Ohio, decided that he would rather fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...