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Word: thees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land of Bums-Fare-thee-well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild White Woman | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...commit ourselves to Thee . . . confident that Thou are working more wisely and more powerfully among us than we understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: World Council at Work | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Charlotte, N.C. one evening last week, as the local school board gathered in the high-ceilinged city council chamber, one member stood up to offer a prayer: "We beseech thee, O Lord, cast thy shadow before us on this night of decision. We pray for those who will disagree. Enter into their minds and hearts, grant them enlarged understanding." A few minutes later came the board's announcement: acting in concert, school boards in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Winston-Salem (115,800) and Charlotte (158,800) had approved "on their own merits" certain Negro applications (total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: This Night of Decision | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...first, the words that rolled so precisely off the pronouncer's tongue ("All-right-y. Yours is an old spelling-bee favorite, the study of fishes: ik-thee-olo-gee") seemed a cinch. By lunchtime. Mrs. Wilford White, the chief judge, had rung her bell only 16 times to signal the fall of contestants. But after lunch, the pronouncer began to give out words that even he admitted he could not define...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O-R-D-E-A-L in Washington | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points in the score, instruments are invited to swing into their own improvisations, e.g., the trumpet after the passage, "Praise Him in the sound of the Trumpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swinging Priests | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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