Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amen to your belated recognition of baseball's Mister Most, Stan Musial [May 17]. But what mortal (even Grandpa Musial) could have played in 23 All-Star games after only 21 major-league seasons, unless he happened to be the incomparable, switch-hitting George Herman Ruth Mickey Mantle Mays Ty Cobb Gehrig...
...paddy wagon. In squads of 20, 30, and 40, more youngsters left the church, were shoved into paddy wagons and taken to jail. Bull Connor arrived and yelled at a police captain: "I told you these sons of bitches ought to be watered down." That night, to shouts of "Amen, brother, amen," a King aide cried: "War has been declared in Birmingham. War has been declared on segregation." The Negro leaders intended it to be a particular, pacific kind of war. King had preached Gandhi's nonviolent protest gospel ever since he arrived in Birmingham. The demonstrations were meant...
...some time in August. Not for 68 years has a child been born to the wife of a President in office. The last was a daughter, Marion, born to Mrs. Grover Cleveland on July 7, 1895. Marion now lives in New York where her husband, the late John Harlan Amen, was a racket-busting U.S. attorney...
...please add a loud Methodist amen to Sister Mary Paul's protest against the Kennedy personality cult...
...holdup on Marshall, President Kennedy said that he had received "assurances" that the Senate would not adjourn without taking action on Marshall's nomination. Whereupon South Carolina's Johnston at last brought the hearings to an end, moving Michigan's Democrat Philip A. Hart to exclaim: "Amen and thank heaven!" Still, Johnston indicated that it might take a while longer before the subcommittee actually got around to taking a formal vote on Marshall. Said Johnston: "I'm not predicting anything yet in regard to the matter. We have to give the other members a chance...