Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white churches of the U.S. seem to have been followers rather than leaders in the civil rights struggle-a condition that many clergymen wonder if even time will correct. "When the tide turns at Jackson, Mississippi," says one Southerner, "it will be because of business people acting for business reasons rather than church people acting for religious reasons...
...picked up his dead cigar and lit it. "I think the people have decided they have been misled. They know we are fighting for principle and not against anything else. It's not too late at all to turn the tide. There's no integration anywhere in the world that's working. You can't make it. We'll have setbacks, but the N.A.A.C.P. kept fighting until it got what it wanted in the courts. We can fight just as long as they did, at least, to change it so it's right again...
Thirteen centuries later, Philip II defeated French forces at the battle of San Quentin. By that victory he turned the tide to bring the Spanish Empire to its highest glory. Because it took place on Lorenzo's feast day, Philip decided to put up a monument to the saint, the empire and God - built on the plan of a. gigantic gridiron...
...During the 1919 storm in Corpus Christi, local citizens took refuge in several downtown buildings, one of which was the Nueces County Courthouse. How then could you write of Dr. Robert Simpson that "he swam to the roof of the courthouse" [Aug. 16]? Numerous watermarks have established that the tide crested at 9 ft. above mean sea level. Wave action above the tide level was about 2½ ft., making the highest watermark...
...down (TIME, Feb. 15). To run it up again, Cattleman Smith acquired the handful of assets left by the Journal-principally the empty plant, some office furniture and Bob Morrison, who still has accounts to settle with assorted creditors. Smith has pledged a chunk of his personal fortune to tide his nursling through the months ahead...