Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro checkers. But Negro civil rights leaders planned one more demonstration--a march on the courthouse to protest city inaction in other areas, such as hiring Negro policemen. Leaflets calling for the late-March demonstration also recommended a "period of self-denial"--Negroes would not buy new clothes for Easter "to call attention to the need for renewing our commitment to justice...
...sooner had Irish nationalists blown down Dublin's famed Nelson pillar in O'Connell Street last March, 50 years after the Easter rebellion, than the great stone head of Admiral Horatio Nelson himself disappeared, hijacked by a group of Irish art students. The boys sold it for $840 to London Antique Dealer Benjamin Gray, who carried it back to England and set it up in his shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody...
...dealing with the question as a cover subject, and a few inattentive ones berating us for announcing the end of God. A vast majority of those who themselves answered the question did so, in widely varying ways, with a resounding "No!" Some thought that the week of Easter and Passover was an inappropriate time to bring up the subject, but others agreed that there was no better time to encourage thought about...
...periodicals joined in the discussion. Malcolm Muggeridge devoted three columns to the subject in London's New Statesman. "Is TIME Dead?" was the title of a spoof in William Buckley's National Review. The Christian Century offered a tongue-in-cheek estimate that 143,684 Easter sermons "grappled with TIME'S cover story question"-and it may not have been...
...handful people realize that the Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1961, finally gave District of Columbia residents the right to vote in Presidential elections. And many people who know nothing else about District affairs know that rioting broke out at Glen Echo amusement park on Easter Monday...