Word: adame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam and Eve before the Fall were "food gatherers," in anthropological jargon. Like Bushmen and Piutes, they lived on what they could rustle up. But after they ate "of the tree of knowledge" and were driven from the Garden (Genesis 3: 16-19), they became husbandmen. Then Adam tilled the earth "in the sweat of his face...
From the White House. Next day, a special messenger from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue brought a letter to the office of Miss Scott's new husband, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of Harlem (TIME, Aug. 13). In reply to Powell's demand for "action" against the D.A.R., President Truman said that he could not interfere with a "private enterprise." But, the President added testily, "one of the first steps taken by the Nazis when they came to power was to forbid the public appearance of artists and musicians whose religion or origin was unsatisfactory to the 'master race...
...many more of them have come from colleges, many are enlisted men who have been with the fleet and wear campaign ribbons on their jumpers. In this year's plebe class is 18-year-old Negro Wesley Anthony Brown, who wrote grimly to Harlem's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell: "I shall do my best to successfully complete the prescribed course. . . . In 100 years of service to the American people the Academy has not produced one Negro graduate." Midshipman Brown, not the first to try, has had high marks, has made one of the highest in the German...
...Fear, panic, foolish short-sighted action--thus runs the well-known sequence of words describing the road of human folly. The reserve pattern--courage, cold examination, intelligent farsighted action--is admittedly all too rare, but is always available as an alternative even for the sons of Adam. Listen for the emotional overtones in a group discussion. Whether they portray fear or proclaim courage will usually provide the key to the subsequent course of a bit of human drama...
...Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished in three upstate New York towns.) Mr. Cromwell would only "affirm" to tell the truth, instead of swearing by God. Then he testified to his beliefs that the story of Adam and Eve is fictitious, the Flood a scientific impossibility and the Resurrection a physical impossibility. He declared: "I am proud to say that I am [an atheist...