Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand three hundred bishops, priests, etc. of the Protestant Episcopal Church met in Honolulu and, like every other religious meeting, bigotry and intolerance showed their ugly heads . . . I would think the Lord would prefer more fellowship and less show if He wants us in Heaven...
...Constitution," prepared by eleven prominent men, including Robert M. Hutchins and G. A. Borgese of the University of Chicago. Published in 1948 complete with President, Federal Convention, Supreme Court, and a Chamber of guardians, this so-called "Chicago Draft" was intended only as a seed that might "take a thousand years to grow...
...with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll is to be reckoned with." And Mr. Freed rejoins " ' The Big Beat in American Music' was here one hundred years ago. It will be here a thousand years after we are all gone...
Marjorie Morning-star is characterized by its author's love for life as it is--people who live by religion, petty prejudices, and conventional morality, people who are a thousand adjectives good and bad. When Wouk does not drift off into sentimentality, he creates finely and vividly constructed scenes, and often the characters are so familiar that one finds if difficult to view them critically. The prose has a polished unpolish; it is eminently readable and perfectly suited to the novel form. Wouk might easily be remembered as a leading American novelist...
...start, the rebel leaders (notified by prearranged "Happy Birthday" telegrams that the time to strike had come) commanded only a few thousand men. They seemed little more dangerous to Perón & Co. than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin...