Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equal in the status conferred upon us by birth, in our rights before the law, in economic opportunity, and in our right to bow down only to our God. We are all equal but, by God's grace, we are not all the same . . . The highest purpose to which we could dedicate ourselves is to rediscover the everlasting variety among...
Normally, the Democratic candidate in Tennessee would be a shoo-in. But this year, the defeat of boss Ed Crump's machine has split the party into bitter halves, and the Republicans have coincidentally emerged with one of the most dubiously-colorful attractions to grace GOP politics in the South since Reconstruction days. This character is Roy ("Ah don't know nothin' about polities"). Acuff, the Bing Crosby of commercial hillbillyism, whose nasal crooning and asserted stunts have drawn huge crowds all over the state. Acuff is running for governor on the GOP ticket, but his immense popularity may drag...
...Grace for Laggards...
...week's grace will be given laggard students, a Student Government spokesman said yesterday, but a heavy fine will be levied on those who have not paid after Saturday. Only persons with iron-bound excuses for not paying will be allowed longer deferments...
...papier-mâché (a mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman's notion in modeling them : he had hoped to take sculpture out of the park and put it on the mantel. Such little figures as his, he reasoned, could be reproduced for thousands...