Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign, then, for this group of enlightened observers, has been a rotten one; it has shed little light on the issues, and there hasn't been enough heat to make the absence of light tolerable. To them, Kennedy's apparent success is undeserved; his case may be a good one, but he has not made it well at all. Nixon, on the other hand, has been his old demagogic self, but he has made no catastrophic blunders...
...many Southern voters as possible, and 2) to goad or lure the reluctant Southern politicians into action behind the national ticket. He was still sensitive that so many thought him a drag on the Democratic ticket, while Henry Cabot Lodge was a gain to the Republicans. Johnson shed all of his pre-convention pretense of being a Westerner, not a Southerner, campaigned as "the grandson of a Confederate soldier" (running, he often added, with a man who. despite his fortune, is "the grandson of a pore Irish immigrant...
...unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs in order or say the words, or pray the prayers or cry the tears that must be shed because all of this can only be done when he is permitted the luxury of facing his death." The clergymen administering to such a case "must speak guardedly of death as if it is years away; he must administer the Sacrament with no indication that this is probably the last...
Regarding your Sept. 19 story on the religion issue in the Southern press, you said the Knoxville News-Sentinel had banned publication of letters to the editor that "shed a minimum amount of light on the [religion] issue and a maximum amount of bad feeling." The News-Sentinel did net take this stand. It was the Knoxville Journal which banned letters on religion. The News-Sentinel bans them other times but thinks they're pertinent in this campaign and uses them, eliminating, of course, crackpot, false, unreasonable and rash assertions...
Jubilee Year. But Philip had little use for the manifestations of mysticism, including his own. Often he would break down weeping, but later he would belittle such outbursts by remarking that prostitutes shed buckets of tears on hearing of Christ's crucifixion without changing their way of life in the least...