Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gospel in Christian countries that are in need of re-evangelizing-including the U.S. Next spring, the National Council of Churches plans to send teams of ministers and laymen who are experts on racial conflict to Mississippi. The teams will include foreigners, probably from Africa and the melting-pot slums of industrial England...
...necessary step. But nonrecognition, in the long run, is not a satisfactory policy. Nonrecognition has never beaten anybody to their knees and has never changed a government. When we're not on the scene, we end up sitting back and watching our own interests go to pot...
...young government of the U.S. with loans and, in combination with de Rothschild Frères, made loans to Brazil. "Money is the God of our times, and Rothschild is his prophet," sang Heinrich Heine, who marveled at seeing a French borrower tip his hat to the chamber pot of Baron Jakob...
...years he served as his professor's pottery man, labeling, studying and endlessly discussing every potsherd from Albright's excavations. He acquired an uncanny feeling for these humble trifles. He could tell at a glance whether a fragment came from a Nabataean water bottle or a cooking pot from the days of Joshua. He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade. "Pottery is man's most enduring material," he says with emotion. "Wood disappears, stone crumbles, glass decays, metal...
...late 1950s after its two previous controlling owners, International Telephone & Telegraph and Sweden's Ericsson telephone group, passed word that they were becoming disenchanted with the then weak company. But Trouyet persuaded the government to let his private group buy it for $25 million, later sweetened the pot by putting three government men on the board. Today well-run Telefonos has about 50,000 shareholders in Mexico, and a fortnight ago 200,000 shares worth $1,800,000 were put on sale in the U.S. and Europe...