Word: cecil
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...British were not far behind. Excited by the discovery of diamonds and gold, British prospectors flocked into the new Boer states. Then came Cecil Rhodes and British capital. And, in 1877, the British government revived an old claim to sovereignty over all former residents of the Cape Colony, laid formal claim to the Transvaal. The eventual result was the Boer War, which lasted for three bloody years and put all of South Africa under the Union Jack...
...Morsell, its assistant executive director, confided that the days of unified action among Negro groups, which made possible the Selma march and the march on Washington, are over. "In view of the sharp differences," he said, "unified action just seems unlikely." Some in the N.A.A.C.P., including Philadelphia Branch President Cecil Moore, openly challenged Wilkins' denunciation of black power. "What we need is a few more riots," he said. "I'm in full accord with black power. You name me a Negro who isn't antiwhite. This damn moderation will make the bigots bolder and bolder...
...salvation. Anglican Bishop John (Honest to God) Robinson paid tribute to Graham's personal integrity but dismissed his style as "the old-fashioned fundamentalist Gospel, pounding away at sin and bombarding us with texts. This is not evangelism." Summing up for the Anglican Church Times, the Rev. Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved' at Earl's Court is not the answer to the plight of mankind...
...Cecil A. Roberts, director of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday that the damage presented absolutely no danger, and that "it is being repaired for appearance and to keep the rain out." The present repairs are also an attempt to eliminate the possibility of new ruptures...
After the 1964 nightrider slaying of Lemuel Penn, a Negro educator from Washington, D.C., a Georgia jury wasted little time acquitting Klansmen Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers of murder. Despite the verdict, the Justice Department went ahead and built its own case by dusting off an obscure anticonspiracy law dating back to Reconstruction days. Last week, in the small U.S. District Court in Athens, Ga., that law brought Sims and Myers to trial...