Word: thumper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, August 23 WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-11 p.m.).* Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Anouk Aimee and Stanley Baker in the 1963 Bible thumper, Sodom and Gomorrah. Repeat...
...William Belden Noble Lectures have only twice been given by an active politician. Theodore Roosevelt '80 who delivered the series of three lectures in 1910 was an experienced bible-thumper as well as a politician, and his reputation was not at all incompatible with the founder's aims for the lectures: "To arouse in young men, and primarily in the men of Harvard University, the joy of service for Christ and humanity, especially in the ministry of the Christian Church...
...more successful bigots than Gerald L.K. Smith, but few have been so durable. During four decades as a rabble-rouser, he has made a career and a fortune out of preaching that only the far right is right - and that just about everything else is wrong. A onetime tub thumper for Huey Long, Smith says that the U.S. was meant to be "a white, Christian country," claimed in 1952 that Eisenhower was Jewish, and has called Hubert Humphrey "a creature of Jewish subsidy." Though his appeal today is only to a lunatic fringe, he still makes a handsome living from...
Defense Attorney J. B. Stoner, a longtime vendor of racial and religious hate who had been a leading tub-thumper in the July 15 rally, produced witnesses who called Knight a liar and swore that Strange had spent a peaceful evening drinking beer at the Rozier house. Prosecutor Williams was quietly eloquent in his summation, "We need men," he told the jury, "who are not afraid to stand up and say, based on the testimony, we believe this man is guilty and are not afraid to say so." The jurors started off eight-to-four for acquittal on a first...
Ideally, the victim of sudden heart arrest should get immediate mouth-to-mouth breathing by one rescuer and simultaneous chest massage by another, until the Thumper arrives, to do both jobs precisely and tirelessly all the way to a hospital. Within hospitals themselves, HLRs are expected to be useful in emergency rooms and intensive-care units, where seriously ill patients are especially subject to heart stoppage...