Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised that Bishop Oxnam of Methodists does not speak for Evangelical Christianity. Our first effort is not to alleviate anti-Semitism or to hinder racial discrimination, as is the good bishop's, but to preach the gospel of salvation through the shed blood of Christ-the message of John Wesley which many Methodists and others seem to have forgotten. John Wesley preached "Ye must be born again" (John...
...Indian and Hyderabad governments exchanged the customary notes. Nehru demanded that the Nizam disband his private Moslem army of Razakars, headed by Kasim Razvi. The Nizam refused. Nehru announced: "We will march!" and warned that any blood shed would be on the Nizam's head. The Nizam said it would be on Nehru's head...
Crocodile tears were shed over this by people who had not sense enough to know that a man may honorably change his vocation, and by others unwilling to see that in doing jobs for his country, MacLeish was expressing in a different way the love of it that had given life to his best poems. Of the Indian chief Crazy Horse, victor over Custer, he had written...
...light shed by the assembly itself was equally revealing. This greatest church meeting since the Reformation could not even agree on a definition of the word "church...
...Dressed in an old, beat-up pair of pants, an open-necked shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the most comfortable shoes he could find, the President lolled on the fantail of his big white yacht, the Williamsburg, and took his ease. When he was so minded, he shed the shirt and built...