Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through an informant, police were kept advised of the League's activities. At 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling...
...Honky, or honkie, is a black-power word for any white man, derived from the derogatory "Hunkie"-Hungarian...
...Cause. Some contemporary theologians are inclined to question whether the term holy can be applied to the sites. Properly speaking, they say, "holy" is a word that applies to God alone, and only by analogy can it be extended to man-made objects. "Any suggestion that God is in a shrine or in some carving is idolatry," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's School of Theology at Claremont. "What is holy is the presence of God, which is everywhere brought into focus by an act of love." In this way of thinking, God's presence...
...faithfully articulates the Mormon moral outlook. If he won the Republican nomination, the editors concede that they might break precedent and support him. The News was founded in 1850, three years after Brigham Young and his followers arrived in Salt Lake Valley. According to the Book of Mormon, the word deseret means honeybee. For a while the News had Salt Lake City pretty much to itself. But in 1870, the Tribune was started to "oppose the undue exercise of priestly authority." Under the ownership of a wealthy Roman Catholic family named Kearns, the Tribune eventually surpassed the News because...
...Cadbury Brothers Ltd., J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd., and Rowntree & Co. Ltd.-were ordered to end resale price maintenance. Hardly was the sense of the 45-minute decision clear when supermarkets, alerted by telephone, cut candy prices by as much as 25%. As the word spread, Britons went off on binges of toffee, chocs and boiled sweets...