Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their first meeting in Lancaster, Pa., Lawrence led the singing and George gave his maiden sermon, a vigorous appeal to elect for Christ and escape damnation, a topic which Mennonites have always stressed. The first night more than 2,000 jammed their way into the tent. Dozens were converted. Before the week was out, the Brunks had to order a new tent...
Winston Churchill summoned his cabinet for a three-hour emergency session last week. Topic: Iran. The word afterward was that the British were coming around to Washington's view that the fall of weepy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh would probably bring the Communist Tudeh party into power. They no longer saw any real alternative, now that the last pro-British Premier (Ahmed Qavam) had been shoved aside, the young Shah rendered helpless, and the Iranian army brought under Mossadegh's control. But they still shrank from going to Mossadegh's aid and on his terms: helping...
...Topic for Today. In Mount Vernon, Wash., a man arrested on a street corner for disturbing the peace was identified as an Indian named George Everybody Talks About...
...NATO report came as a complete surprise to the State Department, which has so far failed to take full advantage of an important propaganda weapon. Yet the fate of the 2,500,000 missing men is a topic of high concern to Germans, Italians, Rumanians and Hungarians. It should be sounded loudly and endlessly before the U.N., in propaganda broadcasts and in notes to Russia. As a counteroffensive to the Russian germ warfare charge, it has the special merit of being true...
Rising Temperature. In Guymon, Okla., the Rev. James C. Hester, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, chose as the topic of his Sunday sermon: "Will Hell Be as Hot as the Republican National Convention...