Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prelates halting his building programs in order to use the funds to alleviate the immediate problems of the poor. For too long the ludicrous situation has existed where the poor have trudged from country hovels and slum cellars to worship in million-dollar edifices of stone, marble and gold leaf...
...kept meticulously silent over events in Czechoslovakia for fear of further embarrassing Dubček before his Communist neighbors. Last week, though, the State Department said that it was watching the liberalization with "interest and sympathy," even expressed willingness to reopen talks about $20 million worth of Czechoslovak gold confiscated from the Nazis toward the end of World War II. The U.S. has refused to return the bullion without some compensation for $72 million in American properties that the Communists nationalized in 1948. At week's end, the Dubček regime rebuffed the offer of new talks, attacking...
...national life do not lead to a resurgence of the Christian religion. They are in fact the signs of God's withdrawal from our republic. In the end, as a last judgment of God, or of the author, The Tarbox Congregational Church is struck by lightning. Only the gold weathercock on the spire, the symbol of God's watchful but now indifferent eye, is spared in the ensuing fire. Eventually even this emblem is hauled down from its pinnacle. Placed in the hands of the Church's absurd minister it is found to measure only "five feet from beak...
...sorely hurt by the I.O.C. action are South Africa's athletes. For Sprinter Paul Nash, who last month tied the 100-meter world record four times in eight days, or for Swimmer Karen Muir, the world's No. 1 backstroker, it means losing a crack at Olympic gold medals. Both Nash and Muir are white. For the blacks on South Africa's team, the loss is even greater: a chance to compete for the first time on an integrated basis-thereby carving a chink, however small, in South Africa's armor of prejudice...
...Rose-Grower Francis Meilland worried about the prize he had sent to his fellow horticulturist. Not until 1945 did he learn that it had arrived safely, Pyle had nurtured it, patented its blossoms and produced hundreds of bushes from Meilland's hardy stock. Then he christened the pale gold roses "Peace," and distributed samples to the 49 delegates to the founding session of the United Nations...