Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Church "cannot welcome all religious points of view (and their services) into its sanctum," he maintained, "the Christian spirit in its purest statement has failed in application. 'Come unto me all ye...' is reduced to 'Come unto me those who agree in detail with me, and for the rest, we will help you go your...
...bounded up to the Sanctum, leaving small puffs of dust behind him on the steps. The familiar smell of old books, old dust, and old beer rolled out as he opened the doors. Inside, paper cups and half empty bottles on a base of old newspapers covered the floor. The managing editor was asleep on a coach. "Nothing ever changes," thought Vag, and started his search...
...taking over the Guardian's leather-and.-mahogany sanctum, Scotsman Hetherington will find the paper at the peak of its power. In his twelve-year regime, a short one as Guardian editors go, Wadsworth trebled circulation (to 167,000) and challenged the London Times in the influence of its editorial voice. He swept the clutter of classified ads off the front page, launched an international weekly airmail edition (circ. 37,744), watched advertising and circulation spread to make the Guardian Britain's only national daily published outside London...
...wife were on the point of going home when up barged Andrei Gromyko. "Have you met Khrushchev yet?" asked Gromyko, who is Stassen's opposite number on the five-man U.N. subcommittee meeting in London to discuss disarmament. Seconds later Stassen found himself in an inner sanctum, peeling grapes with the Kremlin's masters. For two hours he listened to the bluntest Russian talk yet on the subject of disarmament...
...Washington, Negro newsmen have the right to sit in congressional press galleries, enjoy full press privileges at the White House and in Government offices, and have even been elected to Congress itself. But there is still one inner sanctum where Negro newsmen have never been admitted as members: the 911-member National Press Club, to which virtually all capital correspondents (and hundreds of pressagents and lobbyists) belong.* Three weeks ago Louis Lautier, 56. Washington correspondent for the National Negro Press Association and the Atlanta Daily World, decided to put the club's color bar to its first formal test...