Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve East Texans, all whites, his lawyers argued that Ross, who had had several beers, had not been bent on murder. Said one of them: "This boy wanted to scare somebody and keep the niggers and the whites from going to school together-now that's the truth about it." He appealed to the jury to "call it a bad day and let the boy go on in life." District Attorney Ralph Prince, who let 15 months go by before pressing the indictment, argued less forcibly that the jury should give Ross a jail sentence "that will deter others...
...Truth of Heaven. Vast and towering landscapes, of such magnitude that they dwarfed all signs of man within them, became the aspiration and great achievement of the painters who followed under the Sung emperors (960-1279 A.D.). The greatest of them, Tung Yuan, shows in his Dragon Among the Country People the mighty forward leap taken by the Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon...
...Coming of Christ; he acknowledges the existence of a personal Satan, the immortality of the soul, a heaven and hell beyond the grave, the necessity of personal repentance, of a personal Saviour. "So far, fine," says Father Kelly in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. "But there is plentiful mixing of truth and error in his preaching on these points." And Kelly complains that Evangelist Graham leaves out entirely such cornerstones of the Catholic faith as the mediating power of the Virgin Mary, the sacrament of the Mass, the necessity of Baptism, and the unity of the church. "Billy's teachings...
Such synthetic religions, says Gill, "seek to put together from materials that are immediately available religions that are promptly useful . . . The syncretists pick and choose among all the 'truths' they know the ones that check with their own understanding of what will be good for them and for the world. [But] Christians claim that the truth, incarnate, now picks and chooses among them the possibilities for the world's good. The cults try to put truths at the service of men. The church tries to put men at the service of truth . . . Nothing but confusion of counsel...
...tidily. Then he pulls on his suit of lights (traje de luces), says a grim goodbye to the wife and kids, puts flowers on his mother's grave, pops into the back of his limousine and starts down the last, long mile that leads to the moment of truth...