Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's largest Negro church is the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging with more staid and sober white Baptist groups. Their kind of leader is the Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson, the grandfatherly ecclesiastical politician who last week in Detroit was overwhelmingly elected to his twelfth consecutive term as National Baptist president...
...lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...
Galbraith has been away a long time, so now he can look back wryly and serenely on the frugal farmers who grew a cornucopia of crops, on the old Baptist church where no collection plate was passed, on the chaste, sober citizens who were chaste and sober largely because sin was expensive. Penny pinching was a way of life. If Galbraith's politicking father ever earned the disapprobation of his fellow citizens, it was not because he bought votes, but because he might have got them cheaper...
...mood of the Cairo conference was a sober one. Nasser him self best expressed it in his welcoming address to the Africans: "We are all in the same boat. We have all, in one way or another, struggled for independence. We have all achieved it in one form or another. Yet, at the very moment of victory, we discovered that the end we had reached was only the beginning of the real challenge...
Advance to the Rear. Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish...