Word: propheteers
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...about rockets?" said a captured German V-2 scientist to a U.S. interrogator in 1945. "Ask your own Robert Goddard. We learned about rockets from him." Robert Goddard was a space prophet without honor in his own country. Back in 1926, an obscure professor of physics at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., he heralded the coming space age by sending an ungainly rocket aloft from a snow-covered field at his aunt's farm in Auburn. At the request of alarmed residents, the Auburn police asked him to get out of town. His neighbors in Worcester considered...
...Southern Rhodesia need be afraid that what has happened in the Congo could possibly happen here." So said Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead at the height of the Congo crisis. Whitehead was no prophet...
Joseph is a hopeless paraplegic. On the day of his betrothal to Mary he was struck by a bolt of lightning, and ever since he has lain paralyzed, sweating and gasping with the effort to say one word, syllable by agonized syllable: "Adonai"-the prophet's word for God. "And when he had finished this entire word he would re main tranquil for an hour or two until the struggle again gripped him and he began once more to open and close his mouth...
...aren't dead yet and won't know until we are but so far we've done fine and have two children, spaced right, and they will be our family since we believe in birth control. Msgr. De Blanc ties a good knot. As a prophet and a psychiatrist, he falls flat on his face...
...moved their minds and stirred their hearts ... Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party. Do not reject this man." With that, the hall exploded into the fiercest demonstration of the week. From his command post, Bobby Kennedy set out to snuff out Stevenson flickers in wavering delegations. But it did not take long to discover that the delegates themselves were largely unmoved, and that the Stevenson revival was largely a mirage. Bobby phoned Jack. "It's O.K.," he said. "We're in." The roll call told the story. As each delegation registered its declaration...