Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pone talked to Mitchell through a barricaded door. "There's been a lot of talk about the absence of black fathers in black homes," he said. "I have a responsibility to keep your daughter's father alive. Black babies need black fathers." He told Mitchell that his daughter did not need the additional disadvantage of having to say that her father was a murderer and had committed suicide, or had been gunned down by the police. "I asked him if he wanted some other man to be responsible for her education, or walking down the aisle when...
...call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play so loud they all could hear him." Says Denny: "I practiced on that organ every night. Sure, I knew a lot of people thought it was a sissified thing to do, and I beat up a lot of guys who said it out loud...
...main problem was to combine glass, which frames views of the Kreeger's 5½-acre lot, with hanging room for their art. To solve their problem, Johnson chose a style that he terms "Mediterranean modern," designed the house as a series of modular galleries topped with lifted cross-vaults. These give it a vague resemblance to Istanbul's domed Hagia Sophia, which has led some Washington wags to dub it "Bauhaus Byzantine...
...wife keeps telling me to slow down. But I can't slow down. I just live too fast. My father died at 36. His father died at 36. And his father died at 32. I'm in a little better shape than my father, and I can do a lot in 16 years." With that, Pitcher Denny McLain goes whomp, whomp on the pedals ?and the sweet organ music floats past...
After graduating from Ascension (with bow tie firmly in place), McLain went on to Mt. Carmel High, Chicago's "Little Notre Dame." Father Ben Hogan, a former English teacher at Mt. Carmel, remembers Denny well: "He had a lot of trouble keeping his mouth shut." And he was no whiz in the classroom, although he managed to maintain a C average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could...