Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wider outlook began to prevail. The church's first official missionary branch, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, was chartered in 1701. In the 19th century, Anglican evangelizing got valuable assistance from the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church. At the first Lambeth conference of Anglican Bishops, in 1867, there were 68 prelates from outside England and Wales. At the next Lambeth conference, in 1968, more than two-thirds of the 350 bishops will represent countries where English is not the mother tongue...
...comedy is never frivolous, though. Faulkner, in accepting his Nobel Prize, stated, "I decline to accept the end of man. I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail." Beckett is not so sure. But at least his characters do their damndest to endure...
...bred and well-read, it was her wealth that seems to have piqued Shaw's imagination. G.B.S., who always took pains to keep each of his old "enchantresses" informed of every new conquest, was soon taunting Ellen Terry with his "green-eyed Irish millionairess." "I think I could prevail on her," he wrote the actress, "and then I shall have ever so many hundreds a month for nothing. Would you ever in your secret soul forgive me?" Though he was bombarding Charlotte with passionate prose at the time, he described her to his actress friend with clinical objectivity...
...threat to a secure and free nation as an attempted military coup." In a column distributed to newspapers last month and then ordered killed by the Times News Service before publication, Baldwin said: "Weariness, mistrust, recrimination and mutual suspicion, particularly between many of the top civilian and military officials, prevail" in the Pentagon. Uniformed personnel feel, he said, that "top civilians in the Pentagon show too little warmth or sense of leadership, of loyalty down to their subordinates, or of the importance of the human being to the military services in the nuclear...
What makes a chill penury prevail...