Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine guys, all with some reputation, ability and confidence in themselves. If any Chief Justice can knock their heads together and get unanimity he's better than I am." Earl Warren, by persuasion rather than head-knocking, won unanimity in all the desegregation decisions. And it is in testament to his skill and effectiveness as Chief Justice that his will and his liberal bent have come to dominate the Supreme Court over the last year...
...Lubwa, this time to demand the use of the mission church to preach in. When the missionaries turned her down, she went back to her village with the story that the missionaries had stolen her African book and sent it off to Scotland. She began attacking the New Testament, calling it icibolya-"a deserted village, a hollow shell...
...Baas." "Can't you leave me alone?" asks Fletcher. "No, baas." In these simple words, the formula of a social poison is stated. There is no forgiveness of trespasses, but a meting-out predating the New Testament. Joseph has made of himself a human albatross, and he and the ones who have wronged him will hang together to the end. Fletcher, the white man, is left in a hysteria of frustration, "dancing there, solitary in the veld, a grotesque little figure, capering under a blazing...
...free society wherein "men are not called upon to pay for their convictions . . . with the price of their lives," here is a haunting testament from those who paid...
...century, when its circulation was 30,000. Riddell soon became managing editor, catered to other favored British tastes by adding big side dishes of sports coverage (including quoits, darts and pigeon racing) and contests, plus a light helping of political comment. "We're just like the Old Testament," Riddell told his critics. "We report crime and punishment." Riddell won a peerage, and his editor, Emsley Carr, was knighted...