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Ecumenical Century. The new merger underscored a glacially slow but unmistakable trend in sect-ridden U.S. Protestantism. During the late 18th and first half of the 19th Centuries, Christianity in America tended to spatter in sectarian fragments like a spoonful of quicksilver dropped suddenly on marble. Now, in the 20th Century, U.S. Christians have begun to coalesce on their common Christian ground...
From the dense fields of kaoliang lining each side of the highway came a spatter of small-arms fire. With a combat-developed reflex motion, the marines sprang from their vehicles, took cover in a ditch and fired back. Mortar shells and machine-gun bullets flushed the ambushers-Chinese riflemen, some clad in loincloths, some in the bluish uniforms of Chinese Communists...
...Matisse and Picasso, she clapped sharply for attention, gathered a little crowd about her, and began a speech. These paintings, she said, were: 1) "the product of diseased minds"; 2) "garbage masquerading as art"; 3) a racket imposed on the public. From her hearers, reported PM, came a warm spatter of applause...
Then the parade of shiny automobiles swung off behind a noisy V of police motorcyles down Delaware Avenue, down Pennsylvania Avenue. A steady spatter of wet handclaps kept pace as jampacked thousands craned for a glimpse of the President, waving and smiling, with a lap robe pulled almost to his shoulders. Bands along the way thumped and blared, and at the sight of one in particular-the Marine Corps's only bagpipe band, home from service in Londonderry-the President turned and waved in evident appreciation...
...Making Money." Light was just sneaking over the horizon; a rooster crowed overhead. Toffey was radio-talking to the regimental commander, Lieut. Colonel Ashton Manhart, when a spatter of machine-gun and rifle fire broke out. "We're starting to make some money now," calmly said Toffey over the radio...