Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Pressman decided to reverse his field. Apparently on the grounds that confession might be good for a goal, he also retailed some sins to the press. He admitted having joined the Communist Party in 1934: it was all, he said, because of the depression and Hitlerism. He had...
The day before, his fists clenched and his Cambridge-smooth voice swollen with emotion, the ambivalent Pandit had spent an hour and ten minutes decrying the sins of the Western powers. Said he: "They continue to make decisions affecting vast areas of Asia without understanding the real needs and mind...
In the early evening, people began to gather around the rickety Victoria Hotel on the main street of the farming village of La Sarre (pop. 3,100). Soon the Baptists drove in from their little church outside of town. Six men and four women, they gathered on the corner, opened...
"The idealists with their 'higher reasons' commit more sins against men than the materialists. I believed in these 'higher reasons' as a young man; but there are no such things . . ."
While Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on...