Word: sinkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Step Backward? Anglican committeemen, high and low churchmen alike, were surprisingly hopeful about bringing the merger off. Said the Rt. Rev. George Sinker, provost of the Diocese of Birmingham: "I think this is the finest opportunity we have had since we turned John Wesley out of the Church of England." The Rev. Leslie Davison, president of the Methodist Conference, went so far as to say: "Denominations have fulfilled their...
...maintaining a steady 50,000 lead: the pro-Nixon San Francisco Examiner announced that Kennedy had carried the state and the nation. Even so, the result still was not official, and Nixon was conceding nothing. Ohio's Democratic Governor Mike Di Salle, who went hook, line and sinker for Kennedy, still could not believe that Kennedy (and perhaps Di Salle) was sunk in Ohio. Kennedy rallied to take the lead in the fight for Minnesota's 11 electoral votes-enough to put him over the top according to most calculations, come what might in California. But then Kennedy...