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Word: amens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Garrys, the Dan Berrigans, the Panthers and the Young Lords who are alive to the currents that can move our country toward a more honest, yes painful, human freedom. It is not the Silent Majority, who wait for a Spiro to voice their private thoughts and then say "Amen," who are going to affect the dynamism of America. I think that the people who are satisfied and proud ought to be invited to leave, for they don't truly love their country nor do they want a greater future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1970 | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...John Birch Society Book-store where I read pamphlets and leaflets decrying the carnal, communist, and corpuscible sins of this country and sex education and Marx in the high schools and a Woman chewing Chiclets outside walked by looking into the window and the Joe McCarthy tints said Amen and shuffled down to the Corner. Later, eating at the Utah Cafe. I noticed a man sitting near me at the counter with no teeth and a beard and a brown suit in which the pocket was filled with ball point pens lined up like cigars and of which the zipper...

Author: By Richard D. Rosen, | Title: Found Poems A Short Cultural History of Salt Lake City | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...three transgressions... and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray. Amen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Three Transgressions... and for Four | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...writes: "Small groups have more power than ever before . . . We are witnessing the explosive rebellion of small groups, who reject the American past, deny their relation to the community. This atavism, this new barbarism, cannot last if the nation is to survive." To that, Middle America offers a resounding amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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