Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running in Vermont, where farmers have tapped the sugar maples and the stuff is flowing through plastic tubing directly from the trees to the sugarhouses. Detroit's Belle Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week...
Back in his Harlem pulpit for the first time in four months, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, 62, told the 2,500 faithful in his Easter congregation that he was retiring. It might have been more of a shock-Powell has been pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church since 1937-but the ex-Congressman's stock has fallen nearly as low in the church as it has in politics. Not long ago, for example, he tossed his wallet onto the Communion table and offered to bet $1,000 that nobody in the congregation could prove to him that...
Nearly everyone held the fast until Easter, and the next week the charge of incommoding the sidewalk was dropped against the rest...
...today and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. A crucifixion by imperial soldiers following the rule of distorted law and order in an occupied land. And we would point to the hypocrisy of the religion and politics of those who, like our First Family, "worship" in their Easter finery before a blood-stained flag and an open tomb, not seeing the absolute contradiction between the slaughter of a people thousands of miles away and the celebration of the 2000-year-old crucifixion and resurrection. In this country, in 1971, we saw fasting in jail as the most appropriate...
...presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been born.' I cannot think of that tragic Easter drama," he went on, "without associating it in my mind, as bishop and pastor, with thoughts of the abandonment, of the flight of so many brethren in the priesthood." His voice shaking, the Pontiff castigated the "vile earthly reasons" many had for leaving the priesthood and asked the congregation to pray...