Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to their own estimates, increases for the two most numerous Protestant denominations between the years 1951 and 1959 are: Baptists, from 17,155,905 to 20,879,220, for an increase of 18%; Methodists, from 11,471,057 to 12,358,861, for an increase of 8%. Jews rose from 5,000,000 to 5,500,000-a 10% increase...
...somber psalm and middle-aged women prayed in silence, scarlet-hooded bishops cast Vicar Thomas out of the Church of England. They read from I Samuel ("And I will raise me up a faithful priest") and Matthew ("Beware of false prophets"). Then the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood, rose to pass final judgment: "By the authority committed to us by Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, we remove, depose and degrade William Bryn Thomas from all clerical offices...
...creature from another planet as he stepped out of a white van into the baleful Florida dawn last week. He glittered under the searchlights that surrounded the rocket pad as he made his long-legged walk to the gantry elevator that would lift him to his capsule. When he rose to the "greenhouse," an enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft. level, technicians helped him squeeze through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business of being strapped onto a contour couch, of being hooked...
...rocket climbed, Shepard calmly reported the growing Gs of acceleration and the state of the capsule's pressure and oxygen supply. The Gs rose to four, then five, but his voice showed no sign of stress...
Party Post. Voros was never a party bigwig, although he rose to be appointed to the patsy post of campaign manager for Earl Browder in the 1936 presidential elections; it suited Voros, who at his intellectual best was very woolly on Marxist theory. This philosophical fuzziness saved him; he stubbornly remained human. Ordered to Spain in 1937, he was promoted to chief of the Anglo-American section of the historical section of the International Brigade. It seems to have been one of the party's mistakes. Voros did not have it in him to be an executioner...