Word: lawd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday morning the sky clouded and cleared in easy rhythm. The black around the Jackson St. Church, dark and scrawny the day before, was fat with happy humanity. De Lawd had called and everyone had come--the old wrinkled women, the young, prim schoolgirls, the respected morticians, and the baggy-eyed drunks. Brightly painted umbrellas twirled in the foggy sunlight as on each doorstep a preacher stood and taught nonviolence and the ways of peace...
...When she was two, her Negro nurse landsaked, "Lawd, she's purty as a ladybird," and the name stuck. A ladybird, as it is called in the Southwest, is not a bird at all, but a black-dotted little beetle, otherwise known as a ladybug...
...Your good white Christian ancestors brought my good African savage ancestors to America against their will and against your religion. Once here, you fed them your table scraps and butcher slops. Animal entrails were among the slops, but African ingenuity-praise de Lawd-was the victor, and chitlins "wuz" born...
...goes. "He's an All-American boy out in the paddyfields blasting away at the Commies," says William Parker, a Los Angeles industrial relations consultant. Says Mrs. Adelia C. Shanks of Little Rock: "Lodge has not been one of those Lawd, Lawd, candidates. What he's done, he's done silently and from the heart." Even a Goldwater fan, San Francisco's Republican Alliance Leader Ned Turkington, concedes: "The gentleman has grooming. He represents generation upon generation of a family devoted to public service...
Cadence. Some cynics call King "De Lawd." He does have an upper-air way about him, and, for a man who has earned fame with speeches, his metaphors can be downright embarrassing. For Negroes, he says, "the word 'wait' has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide," giving "birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration." Only by "following the cause of tenderheartedness" can man "matriculate into the university of eternal life." Segregation is "the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality," and it "cannot be cured by the Vaseline of gradualism...