Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find himself confronted with spiritual drift in suburbia or explosive hatred in an urban ghetto-and every-where by growing skepticism about the value of religion. Last week the American Association of Theological Schools published a study that bluntly accused most Protestant seminaries of being ill-equipped to train clergymen for ministering to today's world...
...could hand all his weapons to his enemies and convert them by that noble gesture into saints." Describing Wilson's 1919 cross-country campaign to plead his case for a League of Nations, the authors observe: "One may be sure that in his unconscious, when he boarded the train he was mounting an ass to ride into Jerusalem...
...Specifically, Forman often neglects to "place" his scenes properly in space. It is hard to lay down principles by which proper placement can be achieved, but by negative example, the color cartoon often violates such principles deliberately, for humorous effect. Thus, when Tom or Jerry gets flattened by a train steaming out of a direction we never knew existed, our laughter is more complicated than that we give a clown's pratfall: we sense, also, that a plastic impossibility has occurred...
...decisions such as whether money is better spent on vocational education, or job retraining, or increased aid to poor schoolchildren. One startling fact uncovered by Gorham: an advertising campaign to persuade automobile drivers to use seat belts saved one life for every $88 spent; an extensive educational effort to train drivers saved one for every...
...Shalimar/ Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far?") while she somehow makes her harp sound like a bedspring banged with a coal scuttle. Before long teeny Tony, her stepson and heir, just can't face the music. So he runs a wire from his toy-train set to the frame of the harp, transforming it into a colossal toaster that does stepmother up brown...