Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1951, was assigned to Japan, spent two years learning the language. Last fall a group of U.S. military people, calling themselves the Southern Baptist Military Fellowship, asked Jackson to help them organize an English-speaking Baptist church in Tokyo. The Jacksonian result: a whirlwind of preaching, fund-raising and organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church, he plans to spend $200,000 in advertising and to round up big-name...
...came up with the answers was Humphrey, Hanna vice president and a director. He was interested in nothing less than complete control, and took off on a whirlwind trip to Brazil. He looked over the mine, talked to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek and in six days lined up a deal. Said D'el Key's British manager: "A very dynamic chap, Humphrey. He never even stopped...
...Gifford Pinchot, having drawn breath after the whirlwind campaign that made her husband Governor of Pennsylvania, went to Washington with a plan. "Let the women . . . take charge of prohibition enforcement." she urged President Harding, "and see if they are not more zealous for enforcement than...
...today is the extraordinary breadth of the nation's music production and consumption: operas and orchestras by the hundreds, musicians by the thousands, instruments by the millions-and blowing over it all. almost defying measurement, rising above the noise even of America's engines, the wonderful, relentless whirlwind of recorded sound...
...that draws a miniature 1890-style train around the park. While in Texas, Mohammed decided to summon his four daughters-Lalla Aisha, 27, (TIME, Nov. 11), Lalla Malika, 20, Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped on to San Francisco for two days, then hopped to Omaha, where he arrived in freezing weather, later was escorted all around the Strategic Air Command's headquarters, including a spelunking expedition through its vast underground communications center. Remarking that by now he was "awfully tired...