Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from chamber to cloakroom to corridor, bringing men of widely varying beliefs together in a new party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
Pulpit v. Pulps. Keith S. Sutton, a nationally known puzzle expert, set up the contest with the blessing of the Rev. Canon Albert J. duBois, general secretary of the A.C.U. The board's lone dissenter, the Rev. Charles H. Graf of Manhattan's St. John's Episcopal Church in the Village, objected to the puzzle initially because, he argued, contestants are encouraged by easy come-on puzzles until they reach "tiebreakers" that are "so prodigiously difficult that only experts can solve them...
...says a handsome, snappily dressed Oklahoman, has personally asked him, in audible tones, to win a million souls by July 1, 1956. This theophanous request-especially with a deadline-might give pause to many a lesser man, but it is made to order for the special talents of the Rev. Oral Roberts, 37-year-old evangelist and faith healer and the U.S.'s newest religious comet...
...Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of England's Canterbury Cathedral, has long managed to maintain a strict distinction between pulpit and soapbox. Last week, for the first time, the Red Dean decided to move his soapbox into church...
...most unending ass, half in Christendom and half in Communism." The London Daily Sketch's editorial columnist, Candidus, angrily scored his "antics and political clowning," suggested a boycott of the cathedral whenever he preached. From the pulpit of London's St. Luke's Church, the Rev. Hector Morgan issued another blast: "Send Dr. Johnson on a permanent mercy mission to the prisoners in the salt mines of Siberia...