Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday morning the sky clouded and cleared in easy rhythm. The black around the Jackson St. Church, dark and scrawny the day before, was fat with happy humanity. De Lawd had called and everyone had come--the old wrinkled women, the young, prim schoolgirls, the respected morticians, and the baggy-eyed drunks. Brightly painted umbrellas twirled in the foggy sunlight as on each doorstep a preacher stood and taught nonviolence and the ways of peace...
...clapped for four hours, as the wind and rain swirled into a minor tornado. The temperature dropped into the low 40s but they all stayed. An old preacher pulled me under his umbrella. "You gonna freeze, be said. We linked arms and sang to keep warm. Up front a fat Negro boy in blue overalls led the chanting, bellowing and smiling into a huge red megaphone. A small boy near me started shivering. Finally a spasm of exhaustion shook through him and he fell face down in a puddle. His father picked him up and straightened his hair...
...however, the Bulldogs' night to howl. Yale, led by double winners Steve Clark and Roger Goettsche, who set an Eastern record of 54.2 in the 100-yard backstroke, garnered a fat 318 points to runner-up Army's 257. Harvard finished in ninth place with 76 points...
Given a fighting force composed of knights too fat for their armor, horses too old to stand up, and soldiers a draft board would stamp instant 4-F, Ulysses S. Grant himself could not stir up a convincing battle. All the more amazing, then, that a 58-year-old, 5-ft. 1-in. woman can. But then, Opera Director Margherita Wallmann does not map her strategy in the thick of enemy attack but to the friendly strains of Prokofiev and Verdi, Puccini and Mozart...
...fat red Service Book and Hymnal used by the Lutheran Church in America includes ten hymns with words or music by Martin Luther-and not one of them is among the top ten favorites of Lutherans today. His best-known work, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, ranks 15th on the list of the Lutherans' most frequently sung hymns, well behind a host of hymns by 18th and 19th century Protestants. According to a survey in The Lutheran Magazine, the hymns at the top of the list are Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty; Beautiful Savior; My Faith Looks...