Word: kneels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping with the passive tone of their whole rebellion, the Negro defendants-each freed on $300 bond after fingerprinting-proceeded from the jailhouse to church for the next move. About 3,000 Negroes gathered in Montgomery's red brick First Baptist (Negro) Church to protest the arrests, to kneel beneath stained glass windows and peeling yellow walls and sing "Hallelujah." Said the Rev. Martin Luther King, 27: "This is not a tension between the Negro and whites. This is only a conflict between justice and injustice. We are not just trying to improve Negro Montgomery. We are trying...
...fact that man's creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation packed so tightly into St. Aldate's Church that students could not kneel to pray...
Long before daylight next morning, the Sultan drove to the holy city of Fez to kneel toward the rising sun, and to pray on a rug beside the grave of his mother, who had died of grief for her son ten days after his removal from the throne...
...lines, Reckless became both a mascot and an efficient carrier of ammunition for a recoilless ("Reckless") rifle platoon, 5th Marines. She learned to relish C-rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare...
...rubric, 'Kneel when you light a fire,' with its implication that you are thereby engaging in an act of reverence...