Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Supreme Court rulings, i.e., the ban on bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala., have made "every segregation act or law of any state as dead as a doornail," declared U.S. District Judge Dozier DeVane in Tallahassee, Fla. last week, "every state has a right to litigate these matters...
...back. The AVH panicked, and the mob surged forward. Ferenc heard a burst of machine-gun fire. There was a sudden silence and then a roar went up, soft at first, and then like thunder. Says Ferenc: "I saw, being passed back over the heads of the crowd, a dead woman of about 45. I found myself screaming with rage. I was like an animal." A people's wrath is a terrifying thing. That night, the next day, and for many days afterwards, the people who had suffered so much under the AVH pursued the AVH men, flushed them from...
Next job for the scriptural brain: the Dead Sea Scrolls. In these and other ancient documents, gaps can often be filled in by examining the words immediately preceding and following the gap and determining what other words are most frequently associated with them in the rest of the text. "I am praying to God," said Father Busa last week, "for ever faster, ever more accurate machines...
...Edson of western New York was seized by a conviction that explained the whole sad mistake. What was meant by Daniel 8:14, he decided, was Christ's entrance into the second chamber of his sanctuary (in 1843-44) to examine the lives of all mortals living and dead, and to dispense the atonement he had paid for with his blood. This "investigative judgment," said Edson, was going on now; when it was completed, the great day of the Second Coming would dawn...
Fred Allen's father bound books for a living, but there is no evidence that he ever opened one. Born in Cambridge, Mass, in 1894, Fred was christened John Florence Sullivan; within three years his mother was dead, and the elder Sullivan had taken to drink. One of Allen's boyhood memories is of himself and his younger brother piloting the old man home after an all-day binge: "We looked like two sardines guiding an unsteady Moby Dick into port." He took an after-school job as runner and stack boy at the Boston Public Library...