Word: usher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except when standing the court to order and swearing in witnesses, the court usher keeps his eyes resolutely closed throughout the evening. It is the best way to see this play...
...least 20 Harvard undergraduates, most of them football players and members of Winthrop House, will usher political dignitaries around Boston when they come to town for an O'Donnell testimonial dinner Saturday...
...judge, an Episcopalian and a racist, waited for us to finish a nervous introduction. We had encountered him only too often in his capacity as head usher, and we knew our man. Now that we sat in his elegantly appointed office in the Dalias County Courthouse, we were terrified. We knew what this man could do, and what we had not seen ourselves we had heard from our friends among the high school kids. We concluded with something more or less coherent about the situation in St. Paul...
...denominations. The people's hearts, once joined in Christian love, might battle successfully the sophistries of European religion (based ominously on both intellect and tyranny); the American churches, once laced with enough committees and missions, might achieve unity even out of extreme diversity; and a united America, presumably, would usher the rest of the world into the millennium. "The event of the century", Miller ironically notes, the revival of 1857-58, "lifted the populace to its most grandiose conception of unity just before slavery sundered the country...
Since the Confraternity Bible (TIME, May 28) is the official version for the Catholic Church in the U.S., the new RSV will only be used for private study and for interfaith discussion. Nonetheless, Cardinal Meyer wrote, it "should help usher in a happier age when Christian men will no longer use the Word of God as a weapon, but rather, will find God speaking to them within the covers of a single book...