Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that before his "conversion" he had been a chronic womanizer; past wrongdoings were now an asset, he added, since in his sermons "I always start off talking about the sins I know about firsthand, because people want to know if their sins are about the same or different than mine." Caldwell also notes that many devout Southerners still cannot see the disparity between their concern for personal salvation and their anti-Negro prejudices. One general-store owner boasted that he was "a faithful church member and a good Christian" -then proceeded to excoriate a Jew who had opened a store...
...Alaska's 81 pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...
...student, would he feel that I regarded him only as part of the Negro Problem? If, on the other hand, I avoided books dealing with race, would he feel that I was treating him like a psychological invalid, trying not to upset him? Or was the problem mine--was I being over-sensitive...
Hamilton replied, in one of his few emotional moments here, to a white professor's question as to what academics can do: 'If your ranks can grow and mine can grow, we can affect a rapprochement and try to end this mess." It is indeed unfortunate that there aren't, as one student said, more Charles V. Hamilton's around. His very presence here is a salient indication of the black leadership void which exists in academia as in politics...
...friends of Mrs. Faith Deertag gathered for her funeral. Husband Axel told reporters she died happily. "When we learned she had only minutes to live," Deer-tag recalled, "Faith turned to me and said, 'My death will not have been in vain if only this precious heart of mine can beat for another living creature...