Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock." Nothing that has happened to me since equals the power and the glory that I sometimes felt when . . . the church and I were one. Their pain and their joy were mine, and mine were theirs...
...from loans and has financed improvements largely out of its own earnings. Manhattan Art Patron Huntington Hartford, one of the grandsons of the founder, charges that the foundation is responsible for a "lavish" pension plan (up to $50,000 a year for top officers) that costs an amount almost equal to 50% of A. & P. profits...
Whitney M. Young Jr. has been executive director of the National Urban League since 1961. He is the author of To Be Equal (1964) and other studies of Negro problems. Considered a moderate on civil rights questions, Young has been warning lately that the return of a mass of Vietnam veterans who are used to violence could cause trouble in America unless something is done fast domestically...
...citation: "A voice of reason in a turbulent time; a determined leader unfailingly bent upon insuring equal opportunity for all our citizens...
...first time in her history, a summer school session became part of the regular college schedule. Harvard officials declared the twelve-week period equal to a semester, to hurry the Seniors off to war. On June 29, after a month's vacation, the Class of '43 registered for a last abbreviated year...