Word: propheteers
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...father, the chief, invoked an ancient tradition: he decreed that his son should not be buried until he was avenged in blood. Fadwa, the widow, shed her modern ways and vowed that her family, the fierce Barazis, would also avenge her husband. The Abbouds and the Barazis knew the Prophet had sanctioned what they must do, for it is written in the Koran: "0 believers! Retaliation for bloodshed is prescribed...
...time, the word came to Father Divine, self-proclaimed God-in-the-flesh: Philadelphia was going to have a visitation by Detroit's Prophet Jones, Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, who has established a lien on divinity himself. Forth from Father Divine's headquarters in Philadelphia went a cordial invitation: Would the Prophet attend the consecration of the Father's new 73-acre heaven in swank suburban Montgomery County...
...sseldorf, Dr. Wilhelm Meyer-Cords, chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian branch of Germany's Space Research Society, told fellow rocketeers that U.S. scientists are probably already at work building a space station. In case anyone doubted him, Dr. Meyer-Cords also presented a paper by Space Prophet Wernher von Braun, guided-missile expert for U.S. Army Ordnance. Von Braun already has plans for a man-carrying rocket that can reach the moon. His rocket would carry 20 passengers and make the round trip in ten days. Give him some $4 billion, says Von Braun...
...mechanical defect, and its price is high: unemployment. The solution. stated in its simplest form: government investment. The less radical of the British Socialists, e.g., the late Sir Stafford Cripps, followed Keynes (who died in 1946). Whatever may be said for or against him, Keynes was, essentially, the prophet of economic patchwork...
...some like the language of a very gifted high-school senior who has cried Tom Wolfe once too often. To others, especially to those who were not disturbed to find the rhythms of the King James Version forced on secular prose, it sounded like the voice of a new prophet, crying in the wilderness of South Africa.' But most critics agreed that Author Paton' had a very compelling manner, if not a truly original style, and that he had painstakingly wedded manner to matter, especially in describing the life of his beloved country and the tragedy...