Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced Lindsay Almond got his crack at the nomination the hard way. A onetime high-school principal, prosecuting attorney, judge of Roanoke's Hustings Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor Thomas B. Stanley and other Byrd...
...Summer School regrets that it was necessary to turn people away from the dance in the Union last Friday night," Joan E. Hartman, Social Director, said Monday. "Future Dances will be held in the large dining room of the Union," she said, "and there will be room...
Critics of suburban religion, says Odiorne, are really attacking the suburbs, not just their churches. "The conformity which characterizes suburban life is the real object of their derision. They would have suburbia turn its back on this 'other directedness' and arrive at individual commitment through an atomistic thinking-through or insight." But "the very suburban mind which is looked at with fear by the detractors may well be the basis for a beginning of a new Christian era." Perhaps it is because the critics of suburban religion "lack insight into the nature of modern society and the group...
...earth, where two eagles started by Zeus from opposite edges of creation had met. Close to the great temple of Apollo, which housed the storied oracle and its fume-drugged priestess, each city-state of ancient Greece maintained its own temple. Last week the Greek government announced plans to turn Delphi into a modern center for the spiritual gathering of nations, invited the 15 nations comprising the Council of Europe and any other country "belonging to Western civilization" to build a pavilion at Delphi. Purpose of the pavilions: to provide a place for meditation and study by political leaders...
...wrong but not Marxism. With the snobbery typical of many ex-Communists, Deutscher looks down on other ex-Communists and muses about vintage years-1921 was a good year, and Communism was still fine and heady stuff; 1932 was a bad year, because the party had begun to turn sour...