Word: amens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is choas," "property subject to alienment," and "this report is purported to xplain." One student brashly wrote: "More specificly employers are almost unamimous in declaring that among all the college people they hire, very few have a well founded knowledge of the English language." Added Dean Johnston: "Amen...
...Supreme Commander called on all to recite with him the Lord's Prayer. After the "Amen," he turned to Syngman Rhee: "Mr. President, my officers and I will now resume our military duties and leave you and your government to the discharge of civil responsibility...
...makes two serious omissions . . . Oct. 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg, and April 18, 1521, when Luther appeared at the Diet of Worms and made his great declaration: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, God help me. Amen...
...hired three high-priced lawyers to defend him, and, out on bail, exhorted his followers anew. "When you get your eyes off Jesus, you'll always go down. How many say amen?" shouted Tom. "Amen," screamed the congregation. Student evangelists from his three schools, flashing their bright gold-and-navy sweaters with the big block Ps, passed the collection plate. Weekdays, between sessions in the dingy classrooms over a downtown furniture store, they picketed the courthouse noisily...
Square-jawed little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...