Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, for the benefit of his 25-odd Laborite left-wingers who were deeply shocked by steel's omission, Wilson in the debate following the Queen's speech insisted that steel was not dead but merely sleeping until the parliamentary calendar was less crowded. Tory Leader Ted Heath was not impressed: "It looks like the biggest conversion since Bessemer invented his converter," he jeered, "a squalid act of political expediency by a prime minister who puts political powers before his principles and beliefs." Heath's biting attack, as he taunted Wilson with every promise he had ever...
From all this, Hawkins assumes that Stonehenge was the focal point of an early British civilization. It was the calendar by which the Britons planted and harvested their crops, a shrine where they worshiped their gods and buried their dead. It was also a device that priest-rulers could have used to enhance their power. On the day or night that their stone computer predicted an eclipse, they might well have summoned their subjects to Salisbury Plain to observe a spectacle that terrorized most ancient peoples. When the eclipse started, the priests probably intoned the prayers that enabled...
...contains no meat as yet. He was "aiming to kill that bull calf and a hog" in October, he explains, "but I got to looking at the moon. You can't kill no meat on the new of the moon. It will be tough. I studied the calendar and the almanac, and the soonest I can do it is around the ninth or tenth of next month." Then there is the hillbilly's fundamentalist religion, ever inveighing against sins of the city. Two years ago, at a revival meeting in Handshoe Hollow's Holiness Church, snake handling...
There was a certain ecclesiastical aptness to the occasion: the calendar feast day on which the council convened is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Yet many observers at the march saw a disparity between the symbolism and the reality? and in that disparity a measure of how much the council has accomplished, how much still has to be done...
...their nine children in the former British Governor's residence, a vast colonial mansion whose 400-acre lawn is dotted with flowering gardens, a swimming pool and a duck pond. He rarely has time to enjoy it. An indefatigable worker, he is so busy that his appointment calendar is booked three weeks in advance and he often receives visitors at 7 a.m. over breakfast or 11 p.m. over supper. To remind his people that "the good things of life come only with hard labor," Kaunda and his ministers regularly show up wielding shovels at government road-building and construction...