Word: festal
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...support the festivities in honor of America's oldest city. One effect of the widely publicized demonstrations may be opposition to the appropriation, an economic retaliation this time inflicted on the whites. In jail, a group of demonstrators devised a coloring book to be distributed as part of the festal campaign, call Profiles in Color. Under illustrations of various phases of St Augustine history, captions might read: "See the demonstration leaders, color them pink; see the northern students, color them green; see the sheriff, color his neck red; see the judge, color him shady...
...satisfying; she seemed more at case, more smiling, more dignified, as she began to explain African dancing. Perhaps an audience of dancers is inherently more open to inspiration; and, of course, it is more thrilling to see a class of perhaps 75 dancers attempt a warrior-dance or a festal dance than to see one woman perform "fragments" of tribal dances, fragments unnecessarily brief...
...four days that followed, Harold Macmillan-who plans to visit five Commonwealth nations in as many weeks-donned festal garlands, shucked off his shoes before placing a wreath on Mahatma Gandhi's shrine, ceremonially visited the spot from which British forces launched their final assault on Old Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. But the bulk of Macmillan's time was taken up in political discussion. In repeated talks with Nehru, he got an earful of Indian ideas on the necessity for nuclear disarmament and the desirability of a new summit meeting. At a banquet in Macmillan...
...brawling and festal side, this Romeo was well done. There was some individuality but little lure to Paul Rogers' Mercutio, some novelty but too much license to Wynne Clark's Nurse. What held both productions together, for all their want of urgency and luster, was a frequent feeling for the eloquence of verse, a certain knowledge of the architecture of scenes...
...silently prayed, in solemn and festal exaltation: make me to know Thy suffering this day. O make me to know Thy dear Son's suffering this...