Word: sermonizer
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...squeeze in his sports when and if he can these days, he should be used to it. As children, Marvin, his two brothers and two sisters had to spend most of their free time at a pentecostal church in Washington, D.C., listening to their father preach. After the sermon, Marvin would take his guitar and entertain the three dozen or so faithful with His Eye Is on the Sparrow...
Inside, Nixon spoke to an audience of 5,000 that included civic and labor Pooh-Bahs but was dominated by businessmen. The President noted that he was rather "like the preacher talking to the choir." Members of the choir liked the President's sermon-and no wonder. It put stress on protecting domestic industry and boosting profits...
...talk with are ready to quit," says one guard. Meanwhile, the town was burying its dead and trying to return to normalcy. Some Atticans, certainly, were reflecting on the words of the Rev. Charles F. Williman, of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, in a sermon at the funeral of one deceased guard. "Until nine days ago, we could believe we were sheltered from the rest of the world, separated as we were from the problems of the people in the city and the ghettos and the rest of the world. If we did not know it then...
...doctor's wife named Josette Varinet, 30, discovered that she and her two children were taking the wrong route. Mme. Varinet began backing her Peugeot out of the one-way street when suddenly a big black car drove in, and its owner began assailing her with a wordy sermon on the failings of female drivers. To that Josette replied: "Je vous emmerde," an excremental expletive...
...over to a prayer table piled high with letters and-a scrupulous touch -microfilm copies of all those that could not fit on it. "Every name," he assures listeners, "is on the table." After the prayer there are down-home introductions of visiting notables, more music, Humbard's sermon and the final "altar call" for conversions...