Word: prophetizer
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...world's first really workable helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...
...seems to the general public that it is no fault of Professor Wendell Furry that you fellows at Harvard have not acquired a decided red tinge. Who knows but what the bewhiskered prophet Isaiah had your paper in mind when he wrote as above...
Miller also faces a good deal of popular misconception about Williams, "the prophet of religious liberty," and strives to answer and correct it. He ardently denies that the scope of his thought was "social rather than theological," and asserts that Williams came to his final ideas solely because he was originally a Separatist. From that position, and through a peculiar method of Bible interpretation called typology, he came ultimately to the separation of church and state, and to freedom from enforced religion within the church...
...crept out of the grass and made for the smoldering ruins, looking desperately for a husband, a wife, a child. They crowded around a young girl whose body sprawled grotesquely, forefinger raised to heaven as Moslems do when they say: "There is only one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." An old man dug furiously in the debris, occasionally looked up, terror in his eyes, then laughed hysterically. Once he shouted to the sky: "Allah! I have no relations now. Why didn't you leave me one person?" Sixty-six died that night; eleven from one family...
...Tory. Thus spake Churchill the Prophet-to Britain and the world. Churchill the Old Tory stuck to party politics...