Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is no need for the party to buy a pig in a poke. The New Dealers and the me-tooers say that Bob Taft lacks color and glamour. To this I say he has the color of ability, the color of experience, the color of courage . . . Hero worship is no substitute for faith based on known performance. Neither is glamour or sex appeal. If we as a party, at this late date, propose to risk our political future on such slender attributes, then I say the party is dead and we are met here today merely to select...
...room, brick-and-stone governor's mansion, Stevenson sleeps in a second-floor bedroom; on the walls hang portraits of great-grandfather and grandmother Fell and grandfather Stevenson. (The governor's ex-wife once remarked: "There must be some Japanese in the Stevensons; they worship their ancestors so.") Stevenson works at a long desk in a basement office...
...There is still a large portion of the population . . . who claim the right to think, behave and worship as they please, yet require the ministrations of the Church at marriages, baptisms and burials. [I maintain] that those who have ceased to worship with the Church . . . should celebrate their vital crises under secular auspices...
Driven out of Colombia's backlands during the past two years by civil warfare and persecution, Protestant missionaries have tried to start work anew in the big cities. But in Bogota last week an incident occurred which suggested that freedom of worship, guaranteed by the constitution of 1936, is still hazardous...
...York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. is proud that its congregation put up the first building for Protestant worship in the young capital city. It is proud that seven Presidents of the U.S.† worshiped there. It is proud of its great growth during the years of World War II, when the late Peter Marshall,- chaplain of the U.S. Senate, was pastor. When the congregation decided after the war to build a larger church, they decided to buck the trend toward residential areas and stay right where they were, about five minutes' walk from the White House...