Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program on religion and contemporary culture at the University of California and formed some definite ideas about his ministry. "I began to ask why it was that the most exciting people in student life and the most dynamic I met elsewhere wouldn't come near the church. Somehow they felt that the church smothered them and judged them too quickly. There are two aspects of the ministry-the ministry of proclamation and of response. The ministry of response is listening, knowing a person, receiving his gift...
...listen to reason from anyone; but he cannot entirely ignore the warning voice of fear. Does he really love the girl? Does he, at his age, really want to live the emotional life of a young man? Wouldn't he be wiser to act his age and somehow find his peace? In the happy-unhappy ending, the victim-hero of the drama accepts at life's hands the lesser evil, the larger hope...
Pure Rascality. After that, Demara promised himself to straighten out and make a new man of himself: Demara. But somehow it seemed terribly dull to be only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at least five of them: he served as a lieutenant warden in a Texas prison, a teacher among the Eskimos, a civil engineer in Yucatan, a couple of high school teachers. And in recent months, says Crichton, Demara has been working on what he gleefully calls "the biggest caper of them...
Blues Singer Billie Holiday, 44, laid up in Manhattan with a host of internal ailments aggravated by longtime alcoholism and dope addiction, was arrested in her hospital bed. The rap: illegal possession of heroin, which Billie had somehow obtained, probably from a smuggling visitor...
...uncover nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers answer their phones, hear the message, but shut it out when they can, determined to caper out their danse macabre till they drop. At their best, which of course is their worst, they behave like characters somehow kept alive after the last page of a Waugh novel and unearthed 40 years later...