Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politics -- part of the national movement -- want to test their theory by running a candidate for Thomas Kuchel's Senate seat in 1968. Whether the candidate will be Scheer himself or Simon Casady, the ousted CDC president, has not been determined. Scheer says he might also like another crack at Jeffrey Cohelan's House seat...
...likely to survive by excessive literalism or by the idolization of outdated doctrinal formulas. The experience of church history is that every definition is a spiritual agony-man's ever impossible attempt to capture infinite mystery in finite words. "Words strain," as T. S. Eliot wrote, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still...
...situation then is that Lesley girls are very much like all other college girls; many Harvard men, however, don't seem to believe this. The girls said they did see a crack in the Harvard glacier, though. Judy told about her freshmen year when her residence advisor and a Harvard proctor whom the advisor knew arranged a series of parties. The two groups became great friends and dates. They still see each other, Judy said...
...natural that Northwestern the next week would do everything it could to keep Jim from getting loose in the deep secondary. So what did Seymour do? He curled out to the sideline on the "X" pattern and swung back on the "fishhook," made do with 15 yds. at a crack instead of one play...
Hill and his writers had a mighty-hard coconut to crack. About as cinematic as the Honolulu telephone directory, Michener's epic was subdivided into four laboriously correlated novels that described Hawaii's four main ethnic groups (Polynesian, White, Chinese, Japanese) and presented an exhaustive social, political, religious and even geological history of the islands since the Paleolithic period. From this embarrassment of snitches, Hill & Co. selected two strong narrative threads and with them delineated a simple, impressive picture of how God-fearing but life-hating missionaries destroyed the warm brown souls they came to save...