Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second Kennedy assassination-almost two months to the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.-immediately prompted, at home and abroad, deep doubts about the stability of America. Many saw the unleashing of a dark, latent psychosis in the national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed...
...married to Britain's Ambassador-designate to France Christopher Soames and is the mother of five children, has managed to live a normal life. Randolph's second-youngest sister, Marigold died in infancy in 1921. His sister Sarah, three years his junior, is afflicted by the "deep belief that I was an accident" and has frequently been arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. His eldest sister Diana, who was married for 25 years to onetime Tory Defense Secretary Duncan Sandys, committed suicide in 1963-a death that stunned Britain, especially since she was active at the time...
General Harold Keith Johnson, LL.D., U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In the councils of his country, his is the clear, steady voice of deep-rooted patriotism...
...Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker of the House-a job for which many of his clerical admirers thought him well-suited. Yet he was also a man of deep faith who saw the unification of divided Christendom as a divine imperative for the twentieth century. When he died of cancer last week at the age of 67, seven days after offering his resignation as president of the L.C.A., he was still known to many of his fellow churchmen as "Mr. Protestant...
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