Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor-length dresses of the 1860s looked "feeble and languid," while those in shorter skirts had "cheerful countenances." For ten years she struggled to get her Adventist sisters to wear their skirts nine inches above the floor, over long trousers. But her "dress reform" caused complaints and embarrassment till a new vision told her to become silent on the subject. She gratefully complied...
...popular sentiment clearly swung away from King George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...
...year, "as it tends to bringing them to feel the necessity of returning to their duty." He quoted to North with approval the opinion of Major General Frederick Haldimand, one of the government's leading experts on America, that "nothing but force can bring them to reason ... and till they have suffered for their conduct, it would be dangerous to give ear to any propositions they might transmit...
...enthusiasms of the "Great Awakening" and has long promoted egalitarian ideas. PRESBYTERIANS (495). These Calvinists, who began organizing early in the century and are centered in the Middle Colonies, mostly favor independence, though many Scots in the south remain loyal to the King. BAPTISTS (457). This group was minuscule till the Great Awakening, but that and later revivals have spread the Baptists' popularity. Though much harassed by hostile mobs and even by local authorities, they favor an independent America...
...with the dead (notably Jim Jr.) in seances, and suggest that the mediums he used probably learned in advance almost all of the obscure information that so impressed the bishop. They also note that since he and Diane agreed on the survival of the soul, they cut the words "till death do us part" from their marriage ceremony...