Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clasped hands across a table and pronounced a declaration of unity. Massed in the hall, 10,000 members of the two denominations followed suit, joining hands and reciting in unison: "Lord of the church, we are united in thee, in thy church, and now in the United Methodist Church. Amen...
...arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public vent to its yearnings in cries of "Amen." Says John Lewis of Atlanta, former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The church was the only place where Negroes could come together. Their songs were for themselves alone...
Dirksen's assault on the ethics package was all too successful. Clark and Case narrowly passed another amen ment restricting the use of Senate "slush funds," only to have it overturned next day by a substitute, sponsored by Tex as' Ralph Yarborough, giving sanction to the practice of accepting contributions to run Senators' offices - the sort of practice that Illinois' Charles Percy abandoned last fall because of unfavor able publicity...
Under a sign exhorting "Stand Up for America," Wallace mounted a rostrum at the Pittsburgh Hilton to address his first Northern audience since announcing for the presidency. While an S.R.O. crowd of 2,000 cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...
...Father, who is Fidel, who is with us sinners, free us from the power of Pontius Pilate, who is Lyndon Johnson, and from imperialism. Viva Communism, viva Fidel; he is in the fore, and we behind him. We must always be at his side. Amen...