Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News. Then Los Angeles newspapers got curious, interviewed the 72-year-old prophet and gleefully printed the news. But when sinners began calling at Long's house he had to tell them they were too late. "I'm afraid I can't help you," he said, "the Day of Atonement has passed." He suggested repentance on a cross, after the fashion of St. Dysmas, the good thief. "It might work," he added doubtfully, "but I can't guarantee...
...first the prophet was gratified at the stir he was causing. Twice the London Times telephoned him to ask if dissolution was still certain. From New Brunswick, Canada, one Ernest W. Cannon called up to protest over 4,000 miles of wire that his wife had read Long's prophecy and had refused to go on pickling cauliflower. "The Lord," said Long coldly, "cannot wait until worldly tasks like pickling are finished." When Cannon's wife got on the phone, the prophet said: "Pray at noon, 2 and 8 p.m., and ready yourself...
...wander, Zamperini threatened "to report him," which brought the red-headed gunner back to normal for a few days. On the 33rd day he whispered in his agony, "How long will I last?" and Zamperini said gently, "You'll die during the night." Zamperini was a good prophet...
...himself launched into a two-day plea for his life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
Master of Arts: Leland Stowe, New York, foreign correspondent: "A correspondent on many fronts, a prophet who in 1933 told an unheeding world that Nazi means...