Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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citizen who can't be trusted-according to the investigators ... I am prompted to quote Poet Arthur Guiterman: Providence, that watches over children, drunks and fools, With silent miracles and other esoterica, Continue to suspend the ordinary rules, And take care of the United States of America...
...Would you care to give the board, sir, any comments you have, upon the basis of your knowledge of Dr. Oppenheimer, as to his character, his loyalty and his associations...
...make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort of spiv all right...
GASPARE DEL BUFALO (1786-1837) was exiled from his native Rome, shortly after he became a priest, by Napoleon's occupation. To care for the Romans, who had been left almost without a clergy during the occupation years, Father del Bufalo founded the Society of the Precious Blood, an order which has been notably successful...
Segregation was a problem that Texas' Bishop Clinton S. Quin was sure could be taken care of when Houston was picked at the church's 1952 General Convention. He laid plans to serve nonsegregated meals three times a day at the Houston Coliseum and to build a nonsegregated motel that, together with the University of Houston dormitories, would house the convention's sprinkling of Negro delegates (about 2%) together with their white brethren. A car pool would provide non-Jim Crow transportation. But the Negroes would still have been barred from most hotels and restaurants in Houston...