Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object to the use of the word "gift" in the sentence, "the biggest single gift was the law permitting 8,500,000 ex-enlisted men to cash in $2 billion worth of World War II terminal leave bonds...
...harsh, yellow light of a lantern, youthful Gordon Miller cried aloud: "I ain't had this power but about a month now. But I got the power now-I got the 'nointing!" From the box beside him came the whirring buzz of a rattlesnake. Cried Miller: "The word of God says: 'In my name . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them...
Ever since the first claps of atomic thunder sounded two years ago, some Christians have been poring over the Book of Revelation, searching for portents and parallels. "Apocalyptic" has become an easy and much overworked word. But to theologians, the possibility-and perhaps imminence-of the world's destruction poses a number of grave questions." In the current issue of the Reinhold Niebuhr-edited quarterly, Christianity & Society, two U.S. theologians struggle with some of these questions. Writes Religion Professor W. Burnet Easton Jr. of Lawrence College...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
Shaggy Dog. But last week, word leaked out that Hosford was just about out of the market. He had quit speculating in Government bonds because the high capital-gains tax made it scarcely worth while. TIME'S Cleveland correspondent, who called at Hosford's big stone suburban home, found him in shorts by his swimming pool, sipping a tall drink which he hated to see either full or empty, and talking to a shaggy English sheep dog as if he half expected the dog to answer. To his visitor, Hosford related some of the facts of his fabulous...