Word: gaither
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time, the editors downplayed King James verbiage and included songs that highbrows scorn but the people love (for instance, the treacly In the Garden). The wide- ranging collection features such songs as the civil rights anthem We Shall + Overcome, Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and gospel singer Bill Gaither's He Touched...
...Nitze was an author of the so-called Gaither report to Dwight Eisenhower, which warned that within two years the Soviets would be able to carry out a "disarming attack" against "our deterrent power." That alarm helped John F. Kennedy proclaim the "missile gap" in his campaign against Richard Nixon. Nitze, an adviser to Kennedy, was rewarded with a Pentagon appointment, first as an Assistant Secretary of Defense, then as Secretary of the Navy. During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, he was at the heart of the action as a member of J.F.K.'s ad hoc Executive committee...
Many shopkeepers feel exhausted from trying to keep up with their ravenous clientele. "It has been so fast we've had to bring people in as early as 5 a.m. to restock the shelves," groans E. Erick Gaither, manager of a Sears store in Tucker, Ga. At Palo Alto's Emporium-Capwell, employees are often so harried they forget to take their breaks. Said Heidi Thomas, a clerk in petite women's wear: "Last Saturday we were swamped. A lot of shoppers had clothes draped over their arms. I was so busy I couldn't handle...