Word: tulsa
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Twenty-two years ago, the evangelist Oral Roberts launched an appeal for money so that graduates of the Tulsa, Okla., medical school he founded at Oral Roberts University (ORU) could serve in overseas missions. People were urged to send at least $100 apiece within three months to help reach a goal of $4.5 million. Then Roberts dropped a bombshell. If donations fell short, said the preacher, God would strike him down. "I'm asking you to help extend my life," he said. "We're at the point where God could call Oral Roberts home in March." TIME's story...
...Roberts' piety, hence his long attempt at seeking respectability: joining the United Methodist Church in the late 1960s and giving up the rootlessness of his evangelism. The Methodists, however, would later condemn his methods. For a while, his hospital and academic empire helped make him a pillar of Tulsa society. But the kind of faith he espoused was made of constant appeals to his audience to prove it to him - at $100 or less a pop. His old-time religion crumbled because it was built with small change...
...center from Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, Okla., Swiatek said that a surgery in March did not successfully treat a patellar injury in his right knee, and that a second surgery would be required—leaving him unable to play this year...
Winters’ father had made a good judgment call, and Winters transitioned easily into his new role as a signal caller. He set school records for passing yards and touchdown passes in his junior year, and was two-time team MVP and a member of the Tulsa World All-Metro and All-State teams...
Omodele-Lucien substituted in the top spot for junior Alexei Chijoff-Evans, who was at the All-American National Championships in Tulsa, Okla. Chijoff-Evans lost in the first round to Kallim Stewart of UCLA, 6-1, 6-1. He recieved a bye to the second round of the consolation draw, where he lost to Robin Fahgen...