Word: revs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which a Negro maid, when asked to guess who, says, "The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."-a line that has been removed from the film since the murder...
Some Negroes were victims of roaming predators. Rudolph Hargett, 18, a Negro Air Force recruit home on leave in Jacksonville, Fla., was astride his bicycle when he was shot in the head by a .22-rifle bullet that apparently came from a car full of night-riding whites. The Rev. George E. McKinney, 50, and his 16-year-old son were crossing the street not far from their home in Kansas City when both were shot down either by an unknown sniper or by police gunfire...
Some clues to the long-term future of the moderates will come May 12-Mother's Day-the date that has now been chosen for King's proposed "Poor People's March on Washington." Its organizers, led by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, 42, King's best friend and hand-picked successor to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, fervently hope that it will be peaceable...
...permitted to strip too much off the reel, or the fragile line may break just from its own weight in the water. Light-tackle anglers try to distract and turn a running fish by twanging the taut line with their fingers; if the fish persists in running, they must rev up their boat engines and give chase, trying to retrieve enough line to get the fish back under control. A heavy fish that chooses to sound deep instead of run is even tougher: the fisherman either has to wait it out or attempt to "plane" the fish to the surface...
...millions of white Americans, the televised services for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church marked their first opportunity to observe the soul and spirit of the black man's Christian faith. Compared with the austere and stately worship at most mainstream Protestant or Roman Catholic churches, the funeral service was almost unbearably emotional. The simple, old-fashioned hymns, sung with tearful intensity by the church choir, were pure "soul"; a succession of black-robed speakers praised the memory of Dr. King in fustian oratory rich with Biblical imagery. In effect...