Word: hills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clear Record. In Phoenix, Ariz., Representative David Hill Campbell had a sign on his desk in the Arizona state legislature: "Don't ask me for any information. If I knew anything, I would not be here...
Over the years the CBC has weathered intermittent squalls over charges of political influence and manfully faced up to the annual budgetary ordeal on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Lately the network's luck ran out, and woes came thick and fast...
Peering through his window, Pastor Hill is surprised to find how dependent children feel upon their parents, even in unhappy or broken homes. ("I thank you for helping me get over the flu. Please help my mother get a good strong foothold in her work in Detroit. Give me, O Lord, the sense to learn algebra and to be useful in the Scouts. Amen.") Hill is also astonished at the "strong note of penitence and personal remorse" that runs through the prayers ("I ask thy forgiveness for all the things I have done wrong"). For many children, he says...
Humanitarian concern and the idealistic desire to dedicate oneself to the good of others are recurrent motifs in the prayers. But Pastor Hill reports that a new element has recently made its appearance-anxiety. "During the war and the subsequent conflict in Korea, the youngsters prayed for those in the armed services. But the war dangers seemed far away; the children themselves did not feel threatened. It is different now. The prayers they write today contain pleas for protection in the event of war, nuclear attack or other crisis ... By the time they are twelve, they have become active sharers...
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S. L. A. Marshall's Korean battle report, tells the heart-racking story of a latter-day Thermopylae...