Word: snailing
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Considering the fact that the choristers' earliest training includes lessons in how to keep a straight face in church, they smiled and bowed like old troupers in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. Getting used to applause, said St. Paul's Canon L. John Collins, "is like a snail leaving its house. But the boys have picked up secular work very well." They have also adapted easily to late hours; six boys are usually off each night, go to bed at 8 o'clock. "When this is over," said a choir official, "they shall...
...With snail-like caution, England resumed batting. The bowled balls bounced crazily off the now-frayed turf. In the early afternoon, some 25,000 tautly silent fans watched the Aussies claim another wicket-their last. At 2:53 p.m., England's Denis Compton swatted the winning...
...three male leads in the film turn in the finest performances of their careers. Montgomery Clift displays a marvelous, snail-like capacity to contract his feeling and intelligence into the close little shell of Prew's personality, and yet he also manages to convey that within this very limited man blazes a large spirit...
...caution of Christian concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social gospel that snail make entrenched evil tremble, rationalized selfishness seethe, organized greed rail, but shall make the peoples of the earth rise up to call us blessed...
Plato's Weakness. As a priest and a member of a family which has been Christian for centuries. Philip Kaipanplakal is forcibly aware of the snail's-pace progress of Indian Christianity (Protestants and Catholics together form about 2½% of India's population). The main reason, as Dom Philip sees it: "Missionaries offer Indians not pure Christianity, but Christianity plus European culture...