Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salvation. The pietistic, motto-wielding Christianity of his day was inadequate to the inhumanity he saw around him in a world of slums, child labor and union-busting. It is all very well, he wrote, for a man "to lean back on the Eternal and to draw from the silent reservoirs. But what we get there is for use. Personal sanctification must serve the Kingdom...
...looping haymakers, careless of where they landed, confident that they hurt. Macias (118 Ibs.) had little chance to use his shifty speed. When he had his man worn down, Alphonse stepped back and began to box. Even the pro-Macias Mexicans in the crowd of 20,000 fell into silent acquiescence when the officials gave Halimi the decision that made him bantamweight champion of the world...
...Silent World...
WHRB, despite its professional broadcasting and programming standards, does nevertheless have a responsibility to the Harvard community, and as long as hillbilly music remains popular here, it should be played. The titilating voices of Earl Scruggs and Wee Willy Tyler must not forever be kept silent...
Meet the Pagan. Filmed in Hollywood at an annual cost of $750,000, Life begins each shooting session with a silent prayer. The primary purpose of each episode, says Dr. Gockel, is "to acquaint the public with the way of salvation, and that is only through repentance for sin and faith in Christ." After an actress approached him on the set with "What's this 'Jesus died for us' routine?", Dr. Gockel became even more convinced of the need to reach the nation's "unchurched," introduced a TV technique of "new and fresh phraseology" to express...