Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained. On Nov. 3, they were roused from an "apathy of despair" to try again. One Indian and a man named Stanton reached the divide. Stanton came back to the others. "They had reached the extremity. ... No more. Don't call on the outraged flesh or the defeated soul for what is beyond its power. Evening was coming up and they made a fire and stayed close to it, quarreling." In the morning, "strange weights woke them, their companions were sitting up from white mounds. . . . They understood." It had snowed. The pass to California was blocked...
...said John Lewis in solemn basso. "We have to fight this war with human beings. Human beings are subject to all the ills to which the flesh is heir...
...Spirit & Flesh...
...Individual selfishness, a great desire on both sides for its full 16 ounces of its pound of flesh, and the desire to wrangle over small matters to the injury of the great multitude of workers, in my judgment, will make it impossible to reach an understanding...
From Philadelphia came a less clear-cut challenge, from Harlem's famed Father Divine, temporarily resident in Philadelphia: "By tangibilating your fondest imagination I have brought into actuality the REALITY OF GOD ALMIGHTY-Therefore, I say, handle ME and feel ME and see that a spirit has not flesh and bones!" A New York City warrant for his arrest-he is in arrears on a judgment to one Mrs. Verinda Brown-restricts his Harlem Heaven visits to Sundays, when warrants cannot be served...