Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week at a political rally in Papakolea, a Honolulu subdivision, Dillingham explained his feeling of political mission. "My family," he said, "came to Hawaii and have lived in Hawaii to serve. My grandfather came here as a missionary. He came to serve. My grandmother came as a schoolteacher. She came to serve. My father filled in 5,000 acres of the harbor, 5,000 acres that have given all of you people and your families places to work, things to do. I want to reinvest some of the privileges, some of the advantages that we have had. I want...
...Mission. But Meredith was just as determined as his Governor. Like Barnett. he is one of ten children. Like Barnett, he is the son of a farmer. His grandfather was a slave (Barnett's father and grandfather were both Confederate soldiers), but James Meredith served in the U.S. Air Force and came out in 1960 a staff sergeant. A slight, shy man of 29, he became, in the words of Federal Appeals Judge John Minor Wisdom, before whom he appeared in his attempts to enter the university, a "man with a mission and a nervous stomach...
Spanish America Inland Mission, Inc. Toronto...
...Nationalist Chinese conceded that the plane was one of two that they bought from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in 1960. It had taken off on a "routine mission" from Formosa's Taoyuan airbase on the day it vanished, but the Nationalists revealed neither the plane's flight plan nor the pilot's identity. Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted that this one had been "shot down" by an air force unit, but supplied...
First applauded by critics for his Konstantin in the Old Vic's 1960 production of The Seagull, he later spread his reputation in a TV role as an army private who spoils a mission by breaking silence with the cry that he is having a vision...