Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Baptist Church in Houston, youth-minded Pastor Bisagno, 37, brought in Evangelist Hoag to recruit the young in a week-long revival. Hoag traveled from school to school with his plea, and 11,000 young people stepped forward at Bisagno's church to declare themselves for Jesus. Now the first few pews at First Baptist are reserved for the youngsters. While the rest of the congregation mumble their amens, the kids punctuate Bisagno's sermons with yells of "Outta sight...
...back filled with marijuana, pills and LSD; it was turned over to the flabbergasted cops. This month, Blessitt is really testing Jesus' power. He is in New York City for a three-month blitz among the pimps, prostitutes and porno shops of Times Square for which he hopes to recruit as many as 3,000 young helpers. So far he has had only one unnerving setback. A streetwalker told him that she had worn one of his bright red stickers (TURN ON TO JESUS) and "never had a better night...
...that the Administration had made it impossible to hold the teach-in because it refused to provide police to check bursar's cards and confiscate bullhorns at the entrance to Sanders Theatre. Cox replied that the issue had never been raised. Some observers felt that SJP's failure to recruit speakers-only one had agreed to appear-might have been the actual reason for the cancellation...
...much so that he has allowed Hoffa's highly centralized power to slip back into the hands of the district vice presidents. At the same time, the union has grown faster than ever. While other U.S. unions have had trouble maintaining membership, the Teamsters have continued to recruit not only truckers but also office workers and airline stewardesses...
Goaded by Scandal. Aimed at preserving discipline, military justice has always outdone civilian law in providing swift, certain punishment. Goaded by scandal, though, the military has now awakened to the fact that harsh punishment can defeat its urgent efforts to recruit and retain good career men. Says Marine Lieut. Colonel Archie Van Winkle: "We can't afford to keep the prisoner locked up; we want him back...