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...rest of the audience--both Negro and white--were also quiet during Malcolm X's speech. They applauded with increasing enthusiasm as his opponent, Walter Carrington, defended the NAACP position with statements like "Negro racist groups first predicted that Armageddon would come in 1941. Then they gave the world 70 years of grace, which brought the date to 1984 (applause). I don't know whether they influenced George Orwell or George Orwell influenced them." (more applanse) The Muslims in the audience remained completely silent...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Malcolm X Demands States for Negroes, Calls Token Integration 'Mere Pacifier' | 3/25/1961 | See Source »

...they walk out of their locker this afternoon, the Elis will have only one meet, a 47-48 fall to Navy unexpectedly brought their 201 dual-swimming streak to its Armageddon...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Swimmers Will Meet Yale or Eastern Championship | 3/4/1961 | See Source »

Standing at the western end of the Valley of Jezreel, 18 miles southeast of Haifa, Megiddo (the Armageddon of the Book of Revelation) dominates the best route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and has been important strategically for more than 4,000 years. Today it is mostly a ruined city wall. Stables for 450 horses show that it had an important garrison of chariots, which were then the decisive military weapon. The Old Testament says that Solomon built Megiddo, and archaeologists who excavated the city before World War II decided that the Bible was essentially right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: City of Ahab | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...always retained some aura of respect for law. But the sequence of last month's events in Virginia may encourage the southern moderates who wish to comply with the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and who want to keep their schools open rather than battle at Armageddon. Moderates in Atlanta and Charleston and other centers can draw hope from the Virginia integration that the last-ditch, education-be-damned resistance of the Faubus camp may one day be overcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Integration in Virginia | 2/3/1959 | See Source »

That picture showing the Witnesses' biggest baptism: Is it a baptism or a mass drowning exercise? Suicide would certainly be faster in reaching the revered kingdom without waiting for Armageddon to strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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