Word: souls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some black leaders in recent years has been a new emphasis on advancement through "black capitalism." Two alumni of the Congress for Racial Equality. Roy Innis and Floyd McKissick, seek respectively to have blacks patronize black-owned stores only, and to create, with $14 million in federal funds, a "Soul City" capital in the Carolinas for black enterprise...
...nation's profound and still unfinished soul-searching for the lessons of Viet Nam last week produced one historic result. In a vote that overrode Richard Nixon's angry veto of the measure last month, both houses of Congress passed severe limitations on the power of U.S. Presidents to wage war without congressional assent. Barring any Supreme Court decision that it is unconstitutional, the new law will force future Commanders in Chief to win specific authorization from the Legislative Branch to engage U.S. troops in foreign combat for more than 90 days. In theory, at least...
There was a moment of dead silence at the end of the show, before the audience applauded. A mere half-show doesn't do that to people. But just the words of the author cannot give soul to a play, soul comes from the people. In this case, the people were lacking...
UNLIKE MANY characters in modern novels who are paralyzed by a world that looms absurd and meaningless, Skelton maintains deliberate control by asserting the inviolability of his soul. This opens a great margin of humor in the book, for many experiences that would smash a weaker ego simply glance off Skelton. He is intellectually happy-go-lucky. Reflecting McGuane's authorial faith in the power of words to synthesize coherence from a barrage of external events, Skelton continually articulates his perceptions...
...feelings, we shouldn't show them." In Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District, the only one in the state to support Nixon in the 1972 election, Democratic Congressman Gerry E. Studds says that his mail is running 1,911 to 35 in favor of impeachment. "Many are long, thoughtful, soul-wrenching letters from people who voted two and three times for Nixon and now feel betrayed...