Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of being smitten for heresy, the preacher-much to Bryan's chagrin -thrived and became famous. Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" flayed oldtime religionists for intolerance and became a rallying cry in U.S. Protestantism's biggest battle. By the time the conflict ended, Bryan and his beliefs had been repudiated by increasingly sophisticated Christians, while Fosdick had been elevated to the pulpit of New York's famed Riverside Church. There he remained, counseling and preaching, for 16 years until his retirement in 1946. And there he was eulogized last...
...Tiny tells it, he first met Vicki last June in Philadelphia when he was autographing copies of his book, Beautiful Thoughts. "He had a Band-Aid on his hand," she recalls, "and he told me it was from removing warts." For his part, Tiny, 36, was so smitten that he "shed a tear and put it in an envelope that I always keep in my ukulele...
...moved through a schedule that might have daunted a seasoned diplomat: tea with the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a spate of cocktail parties, and a trip to Wimbledon for the tennis quarterfinals-not to mention the investiture. Even her father's erstwhile opponent Hubert Humphrey was smitten. Humphrey greeted Tricia at a cocktail party with a hug and a kiss and said: "She is a little doll." Meanwhile, back home, the President's other daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, was star of her own show. Five days a week, the newest tour guide in the White House...
...Love Bug is the Walt Disney organization's whimsical tribute to the Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous...
FORTY CARATS is precisely the sort of show that people always say they want to see in order to forget the trials and tribulations of the day. The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a handsome lad almost half...