Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Mayor John Lindsay's offer of police protection for houses of worship. Others were obviously moved by the manifesto's charge that Negroes had been "kept in bondage and political servitude and forced to work as slaves by the military machinery and the Christian church working hand in hand." By week's end the General Board of the National Council of Churches had recorded its "deep appreciation" to Forman and avowed that it "shares the aspirations of the black people of this country." As for the people who started it all, the Board of Directors...
...sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings, which are uneconomic." In his brilliantly styled poems, essays, novels (Before the Bombardment, 1926; The Man Who Lost Himself, 1929; Miracle on Sinai, 1933) and his monumental five-volume autobiography (Left Hand, Right Hand!), he re-created in all its opulence the belle époque in which he spiritually lived, yet, ironically displayed whimsical delight in shattering the social and cultural shibboleths of his peers. He described himself in Who's Who as one who "has conducted a series of skirmishes...
...race relations deteriorate. The compulsive winner becomes a perpetual loser-until the day of the big one, the Indy 500. Director James Goldstone even manages to make a wreck of the most celebrated American auto race. Progress is as circular and unsurprising as the movement of a minute hand; the script is reminiscent of a radio play, with an announcer booming: "It's a different Frank Capua out there today!" When the film casts a sociological eye, it is toward such riddled targets as baton-twirling teeny-boppers and accident-hungry spectators...
...bill they will recommend to the House. If they do recommend a bill--probably one along the lines of Mrs. Green's proposal for a Federal Arbitration Board for the colleges--it will either be defeated or changed beyond recognition on the hostile House floor. If on the other hand the committee decides not to propose any bill at all it will be in the defensive position of having to fight any measures like Harsha's on the floor. These measures will very likely be introduced as riders on the appropriations bills due before the House in the next...
...early September, a dry wind stirred the fire up again, but a few dozen men armed with hand tools can do little if the wind is one the opposing side. By the time they flew out, the 20,000-acre fire was almost as it was shortly after their arrival...