Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rock, Louisville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Springfield (Ill), Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, the local clergy seemed reasonably well pleased, but in many cases the franker ministers agreed with other civic leaders that from 80 to 90% of the audiences were more or less regular churchgoers, that the Mission failed to "reach the unreached," and that its principal value was to "give church people a shot...
Kansas City. Said one religion editor: "The Mission failed completely." Added the head of the Ministerial Alliance: "It failed to reach the unreached, and I hesitate to credit any increased church membership to the Mission, though it brought a better community understanding...
...clap of bombing and a clatter of strafing by planes of the British Empire, for the British had learned the lesson taught by the Germans in Poland, Norway and the Low Countries: that an air force can be used in lieu of artillery to strike where artillery cannot reach because of distance or rough terrain...
There was little more the new Government of Yugoslavia could do but prepare to face what came. But even if Hitler detached Croatia from Serbia, that would not get him at the Greeks. To reach them he would have to fight the Serbs in their own mountains or risk exposing his flank. Either course would be hazardous. At week's end Premier General Simovitch sternly demanded of his people that they stand fast and "if destiny so orders it, give their lives for the good of their homes, their fatherland and King...
...daughter, Roy. "You will stand by me?" Roy asked. "I will, Roy, as long as you need me." "Looking up at the closed sky, once again [Asa] had a vision of Kate and the harvested fields and the broad river. Still ahead, and within sight, but just out of reach, and always a little farther away, fading, but not ever disappearing, was freedom...