Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote Negro-baiting Editor Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, "we may feel reasonably sure that [local clergymen] will not be spewing poison into the minds of our young people." The five untainted ones, however, respectfully declined. At week's end the committee on arrangements decided to turn Religious Emphasis Week into three days of meditation and prayer-without any clergymen around who might have dangerous ideas...
...Daily Mirror of his rallies), one of the papers linked him with no less a preacher than Savonarola. Billy's sermon, said the Manila Times, "could well serve as a yeast to enliven the dormant spirituality of our nation . . . It is high time that our religious leaders turn to the task of making us better men and women. We need stirring sermons challenging us to good works as well as faith. We need a Catholic evangelist who will arouse us from our sloth of evil living. We need another Savonarola...
Jewish scholars and writers are showing an increasing interest in Christ as a teacher. Christians in their turn are more conscious of Judaism because of Jewish philosophers like Martin Buber (TIME. Jan. 23). In such fertile soil the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at New Jersey's Seton Hall University plants a seed of fact: Christ is the link as well as the difference between Christian...
...customer, is so pleased with the service that it has banned outside coffee excursions, dispenses 45 gallons of coffee a day at cost to employees. In exchange for the manpower savings, about half the companies pick up the tab for employees' coffee. Many others pay half the cost, turn employees' contributions over to recreation funds...
...standing orders to his editors are to reprint anything uttered about him, good or bad. That is a myth which has gained credence in recent years from the Beaver's increasing appetite for reading about himself. What few Express readers knew was that Driberg's biography had turned "hostile" after Beaverbrook had lavished cooperation, money and high hopes on it. Nevertheless, the serialization once again showed how the Beaver, handed a lemon, can turn it into lemonade...