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Word: responding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Evangelist | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...genuine article when it comes along. It came−a sweeping constellation of exalted royalty, heralded by the solemn magnificence of equerries, secretaries, aides and ambassadors−and the U.S. found that Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, not symbols alone, but flesh-and-blood people, respond with the same human warmth and simple good will that Americans hold out to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Visitors | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...basis of limited experiments by Walter Reed's Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one-tenth the present dose given intracutaneously produces approximately the same antibody response as the present recommended dose given subcutaneously. Suggested reason: vaccine injected into the skin is absorbed more slowly, and cells have more time to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Asian Flu, U.S. Style | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Independent women, the sociologists inferred, are rather frigid politically. They are not the critics, boosters or intellectuals, or the overemotional. "With only limited political loyalty, they perhaps respond to the unique candidate they feel will do them the least harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Tender & Tough | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Though he will respond to Plato or Thucydides. he may find the Bible, yanked out of its cultural setting, an alien book. "The great Biblical themes of redemption and judgment in history, of freedom and grace and sin . . . seem strangely vague, far away, and unrelated to the ebb and flow of life and history as he understands it." However much the world "may have retained the institutions and outward forms of its Judaeo-Christian cultural stem, it has well-nigh completely lost the capacity to respond sympathetically and understandingly to that heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Find the Balance | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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