Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmer William L. Booth, a stocky, rugged-looking man, had read the ad in the Farm Bureau magazine. It sounded good: "HOOSIER HAWAIIAN AIR-A-VAN: Away from home only 22 days, yet 18 full BIG days of Hawaiian enjoyment. Actually see and visit Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, huge volcanoes. Live on Waikiki Beach for a week and take part in a big broadcast." He decided to take his wife and eleven-year-old son, too. The price for the whole family...
...Falls in 1911," recalls Booth, "I was busted." His father gave him $1,000 and his blessing, and Booth was on his own. Fifteen years ago his wife inherited some land and the house. Now he has 600 acres of rich Indiana farm land outside Rushville; the house is full of shiny new equipment, and there is plenty of money in the bank. "What I've got is through hard work," said Booth. "Years of getting up at 4:30 in the morning and working until nightfall. And what we've got, we aim to keep...
...home from a get-acquainted tour of Asia, new External Affairs Minister Percy Spender was bringing a policy puzzler in the case of John James Trench-Thiedemann of Ceylon. Eurasian Trench-Thiedemann had been refused entry to Australia, presumably on the basis of his dusky appearance. But his full brother, Duke, was admitted two years ago, has been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that Australia limit the test...
...this was to carry man's inhumanity to man "to its ultimate absurdity-namely the inhumanity of men other men have been inhuman to," the cruelly of the victim who victimizes somebody else. People who laugh at this are not "heartless wretches," wrote Capp, but "normal human beings, full of self-doubt . . . full of a desperate need to be reassured...
...year-old former inn, the lectures began. "Too many Christians," said Pastor Hans Juergen Baden of nearby Wienhausen, "think about the church as they would a doctor-only to be used in times of distress. Immediately after the war, in those grim days of defeat, the churches were full. Many of us, witnessing this, held high hopes of a rebirth ... of Christianity in Germany. But alas, we were wrong." But Pastor Baden is still hopeful: "The road to God is a long one, but even the most modest approach to God is a beginning...