Word: chilluns
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...Chillun. He took as his target the now well-known article by "X" which recently appeared in the magazine Foreign Affairs. "X" was George Kennan, top State Department planner and Russian expert. The State Department denied that the article inspired the Truman Doctrine, but the thinking behind both was certainly cut from the same cloth...
...Fair (and later of the San Francisco Fair). It was the only major concession at the Fair that made a nickel. In two seasons, it made Billy more than $1,000,000 clear profit. Billy knows the reason: "All God's chillun...
Antibiotics, of which penicillin (rhymes with "all God's chillun") is the most famed, are now the objects of the most exciting search in all bacteriology. In dozens of laboratories, experts are looking for antibiotics to fight the many diseases penicillin cannot cure: tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, tularemia, salmonella food poisoning, many virus diseases. Already about 20 substances with such fancy names as clavacin, gliotoxin, patulin have been isolated from bacteria and molds, tested, discarded as either too weak or poisonous...
...office, gave it up because of possible racial complications. Said Robeson: "I could never be a Supreme Court judge; on the stage there was only the sky to hold me back." The stage quickly pitched him to fame in O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and The Emperor Jones. A scene in The Emperor Jones called for whistling and, because he could not whistle, Robeson sang. Having stirred the audience with his deep, rich voice, Robeson-who had never had a singing lesson in his life-gave a recital, awoke next morning doubly famous...
Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...