Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bible Belt, the rumor has had the impact of a Big Mac attack in reverse: they are boycotting McDonald's. So far, the protests have had a negligible effect, but just to make sure, McDonald's Executive Doug Timberlake last week told a conference of about 75 Baptist ministers in Birmingham that the tale is untrue...
...days before the World Series started. Each game at Chavez Ravine began with lowered flags and silence, and the Dodgers wore Gilliam's number 19 bordered in black on their uniform sleeves. On the morning before the second game, sitting together with some Yankees at the Trinity Baptist Church, the players said goodbye to the last of the boys of summer to wear a Dodger uniform...
...North Alabama are members of the "integrated neighborhoods." Their children attend public, racially integrated schools. Some are old. Some are ministers. 5000 people attended the first Klan rally held after Hines' arrest. At that time, an 80-year-old Baptist minister told a reporter, "God will have a special place for the Ku Klux Klan in heaven." A black Huntsville minister brought the clipping of the quote to his church the following Sunday morning. "The Ku Klux Klan will have a special place in hell! That's fool talk! There's nothing worse than an old fool...I'm going...
...thumping speeches. Thurmond was waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there's South Carolina...
...house to get at Jesus (one of several surprisingly humorous moments). He rises to a tipsy bellow as Herod offers Salome a reward for her dancing, then sheers off into girlish silliness when Salome, as if for want of anything better, asks for the head of John the Baptist...