Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Richardson, assistant to the executive secretary of the NAACP, asked help "from every human being in this room. I don't care if you are white, black, or have polka dots. The NAACP desperately needs student help for voter registration. Civil rights is everybody's business, so my pitch is to every single person here...
...have the recollections of writers like Edmund Wilson, James Agee, and Alfred Kazin been more in vogue. Never before has the music of Woodie Guthrie, the Weavers, and untold "lost" folk blues singers been more popular. We are hungry for news of that era. When Writers on the Left, Daniel Aaron's scholarly study of the period, was published, it received widespread attention. When Mary McCarthy announced publication of a novel about a liberal group in the 1930's, it was anxiously awaited. Americans even find romance in the battles of the 30's--no conflict today seems so glamorous...
...Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees, parts of Esther and Daniel...
Telephone calls to the outer world are technically possible but unrewarding. So many of Castro's minions tap into the line that the connection at the far end often becomes inaudible. Pre-arranged codes do not help. "You know that hardware I was telling you about?" said Daniel Harker on such a call. "Well, it's shifting." He was cut off in midsentence, and his report on troop movements did not get through. Once, after trying vainly to get half a dozen numbers in the U.S., Harker's predecessor bellowed in exasperation: "You mean to say that...
...aces, South African merchant sailor who traded his sea legs for wings, bagged 35 Nazi planes as an R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, returned home to organize 250,000 veterans into the "Torch Commando," which disbanded in 1953 after an unsuccessful campaign to change the racist policies of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, a distant relative; of pneumonia; in Kimberley, South Africa...