Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some churchmen cheered when the Supreme Court ruled (Si) for Agnostic Vashti McCollum in her suit against religious education on school property (TIME, March 22). Others, however, were not so sure there was anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett...
...stands gave him a cheer. But 22-year-old Bob was unmollified. Said he: "Gee, at home the crowd is always ready to give the foreigner a break. I don't blame them for pulling for somebody from the Empire and all that, but you'd think they'd give you some sort of break...
...statement from Taft. "I release my delegates," he read from notes, "and ask them to vote for Dewey." Knowland was right behind Bricker, pushing aside Stassen, who wanted to be next. Knowland surrendered for Warren. Stassen got his chance, stepped forward and surrendered for himself. He got a great cheer. The weary and unhappy Sigler finally got to the rostrum and surrendered for Vandenberg...
...Cheer." Author Miller, who teaches at Bryn Mawr, is the author of a biography of Sam Adams and of Origins of the American Revolution. He writes in the carefully documented tradition of Henry Adams-i.e., unsparing, exact, relying largely on original sources, skeptical of pretensions to high motives. There is, in fact, an undercurrent of exasperation in Author Miller's account, as if he placed the grim record of incompetence and theft and treason in evidence, and said: "Now cheer." Curiously enough, the heroism of the seven years' struggle is all the more remarkable in an account...
...Boston, the fans cheer him even when he gets knocked out of the box. His 1948 record: seven wins, three defeats. For a retread, sensitive William Symmes Voiselle was giving serviceable mileage...