Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important thing was the tactic itself, and we had been told for days indeed weeks, that some such seizure would take place sometime in the days after the Easter recess, it wasn't at all clear what the issues would be. And when it occurred, I must say, it still was not clear what the issue...
...surpassing the Korean War total by 12. Of these dead, 10,000 have fallen since the Paris peace talks began. These grim figures provided an added spur for the peace marchers. With banners demanding BRING THE TROOPS HOME and END THE WAR, they swept down broad avenues, through thick Easter crowds, in Chicago and Atlanta, Seattle and Los Angeles...
Disturbed by the corporate borrowing, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. warned that it was time to "pressure banks to ration credit." After the stock exchanges had closed for the three-day Easter weekend, the board moved on two fronts. First, it raised the discount rate (the interest that banks pay for the money they borrow) from 5½% to 6%. The increase, second in four months, brought the rate to its highest level since the 1929 crash. To make money more scarce as well as more costly, the board also increased the amount of cash that banks...
...mood of funerals are being made by Catholics. Charged by a decree of the Second Vatican Council to put greater emphasis on "the paschal character of Christian death," more and more bishops are allowing an experimental "white funeral," a service as different from the old requiem Mass as Easter is from Good Friday. Dressed in white vestments instead of the traditional black, the priest meets the coffin at the church door, recalling the rite of baptism that ties the Christian to Jesus. "If in union with Christ we have imitated his death," declares the priest, quoting St. Paul, "we shall...
...your translation of Solzhenitsyn's The Easter Procession [March 21]: I have read the piece in the original Russian and you have omitted the final three paragraphs. Omission of these lines for whatever reason deprives the reader of the point of the article and makes Solzhenitsyn appear to be merely a journalist rather than the visionary humanist that...