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...freshman depth and strength will be put to the test this Friday in the Yale-Princeton triangular. Although the Yardlings are rated to more or less swamp Yale, Princeton may be a different story, for the Tigers have two men who can run a mile under...
Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
...President Joao Cafe Filho a memorandum calling for "a solution to the problem of presidential succession on a basis of understanding and interparty cooperation." Translated from the officialese, the message meant that the generals and admirals wanted the right and center parties to put up a joint candidate to swamp Kubitschek...
...world around it, Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Raven, Jenny Lamour) introduces a picture that is surely one of the most evil ever made, and yet, curiously, one that uses the approaches of religion. The Wages of Fear seeks out its epiphanies at the cold-blood level of the swamp, where the winding python rears to hiss at the sun, and sinks back blinded but indifferent into slime, where deity is first experienced-as despair...
...preaching practice. Billy began at a Tampa mission for derelicts, drunks and dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy...