Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the world," he said quietly. "No other nation can do it." Then he smiled and said, "I feel like that intelligence officer who was at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and, looking around at the disaster, said, 'We are going to win this war. But God bless my soul if I know how.' " He is going out now to look for that answer to the new American challenge, which is to live securely in a world where for the first time our resources are limited and our adversaries are as strong...
...assault with intent to commit murder, stemming from a 1968 Shootout with police in Oakland, Calif., Cleaver was immediately arrested by FBI agents and flown to San Diego. "It's a new situation now. Black people have undergone a fundamental change for the better," said the author (Soul on Ice) and former Panther Information Minister. "I've got two kids, I'm almost bald, I've got gray hair, and my political ideas have become refined. Living under dictatorships gives you a more balanced picture of what's going on in the world...
...With soul-saving zeal, First Baptist welcomes deaf and retarded children, as well as a surprising number of Chicago street toughs, some of whom come equipped with clubs, knives and chains that have to be wrested away from them. For small troublemakers, Vineyard keeps a paddle handy. Explains one deacon blandly: "We ram respect and discipline down their throats." And more. First Baptist insists on short hair ("cut so that it is at least one finger-width above the eyebrows"). Primness also counts at the church's elementary and high schools and at its three-year-old, unaccredited Hyles...
Against this unholy aspect of Russia, Tesich pits the sweet piety of spirit that still resides in its people. This is brought forth in the music and the dances which suggest a community of soul−something that we can recognize in the life patterns of U.S. blacks...
...treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to tell you what to do. --Allan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner...