Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing was inauspicious. Exactly nine years earlier, the Republic of Congo had been founded. Two years earlier, onetime Congo Premier Moise Tshombe had been skyjacked to Algiers during a holiday flight. Then, on the eve of the double anniversary, Tshombe, 49, was found dead by a servant. Eight Algerian physicians and three French doctors called in by the Algerian government concluded that he had died in his sleep. An autopsy later indicated natural death; the cause was not listed...
...never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning. The first thing that Adam and Eve did after their rebellion against God was to see themselves naked, and they were ashamed, and they sewed fig leaves and clothed themselves. The whole Biblical teaching since then is that people are to dress in modesty. Now that doesn't mean that girls are to wear their dresses down to their ankles. Certainly a woman should...
...Chicano is as vulnerable to mistreatment at the hands of the law as the black. Seven Mexicans were beaten by drunken policemen at a Los Angeles police station on Christmas Eve, 1952; six of the officers were eventually given jail terms. During an 18-month period ending last April, the American Civil Liberties Union received 174 complaints of police abuses from Los Angeles Mexican Americans. Two of the recent landmark Supreme Court decisions limiting police questioning of suspects involved Mexican Americans?Escobedo v. Illinois and Miranda v. Arizona. Many Mexicans still look on the Texas Rangers and U.S. border patrols...
...first V-2 rockets into London in 1944 he became, almost overnight, one of the most sought-after authorities on rocketry, called upon to advise the Government and writing book after book (Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space, Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space). His death came on the eve of man's scheduled landing on the moon just a year shy of the date he forecast more than 20 years...
...Arab press raged, but Arafat himself was silent, apparently not wanting to show more concern for his own house than for other Arab homes blown up by the Israelis because their occupants collaborated with Al-Fatah. But on the following Sabbath eve, three bombs exploded in a side street 300 yards from the Wailing Wall, wounding three Arab civilians and an Israeli soldier...