Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote an ecclesiastical mash note to the U.S., published in the current issue of the U.S. fortnightly Christianity & Crisis. "To me, American church life seemed to be more attractive, more in contact with people in general than is the case in Europe. This may be the result of the warmth of your church atmosphere . . . The European churches consist of individuals, the American ones more of families." The clublike sociability of U.S. Protestant churches reminds Bishop Berggrav of "the social trend so often noticeable in the New Testament . . . In the U.S.A. a pastor or a parish worker may be approached...
Inside the Taejon clinic one morning last week the homemade kerosene stove was a center of warmth and hope for a little huddJe of maimed men. One sat with his stump tucked under him, an armless boy held his Bible in two hooks. Torrey slipped an elastic from around his Bible, parked it on his arm-hook, and then began reading the 36th Psalm...
...lovely lights and shades that the other singers sounded colorless by comparison. In the last act, she finally showed why she is compared with such legendary sopranos as Galli-Curci and Claudia Muzio: she sang parts of Willow, Willow, the Ave Maria, and particularly her dying phrases, with ravishing warmth and richness...
...feet when a Salvation Army hymn strikes up, its old woman jabbering rapid-fire Italian, its nervous swain constantly dropping nickels into a pay phone, its persistent fanatic nursing along the marbles game-these have a fine exuberance and humor about them, and have the wackiness -plus a Saroyanesque warmth-of a You Can't Take It with...
When the Eskimo feels too warm, as he frequently does even in very cold weather, he loosens his parka at the chin and lets some of his bubble of warmth escape. If he has to sit out a blizzard in the open, he pulls his arms out of the sleeves and folds them across his naked chest as additional heat-generators.' He wears no underclothes, of course. They are not necessary, says Stefansson. and about all they do is add weight and collect moisture...