Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billed as a seminar on the Constitution, "The Making of America" is more a churchy patriotic meeting than a scholarly dissertation. Sessions open with a presentation of military colors, followed by soloists belting out The Battle Hymn of the Republic and audiences singing God Bless America. When W. Cleon Skousen, 74, steps onto the podium, he preaches that the authors of the Constitution intended the U.S. to be governed as a Christian republic "under the law of God." As he explained to a rapt gathering of 800 in Anchorage two weeks ago, "The Founding Fathers wanted to separate church...
...middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius XII to bless...
...Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...
...speech, Buchanan said, "If Colonel North broke any rules, he will stand up and take it like the fighting Marine he is. But I say, if Colonel North ripped off the Ayatollah [Ruhollah Khomeini] and took $30 million and gave it to the Contras, then God bless Colonel North...
Singing "God Bless America," CIA supporters drowned the chants of protesters yelling "CIA, USA, out of Nicaragua...