Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the crowd were Negroes, and local civil rights leaders expressed hope the rally would help awaken them to the possibilities for mass action, such as selective patronage...
Griswold fought hard to make Yale a college that would "awaken and develop the intellectual and spiritual powers in the individual before he enters his chosen career," and devoted much of his time to improving the undergraduate college. A major accomplishment was his $69 million Program for Arts and Sciences...
...plenty of opposition to women ministers in Sweden, and last week ' Barbro was refused permission to preach in the cathedral of Linkoping. Another handicap is her tranquil good looks. "This is not a suitable attribute for a priest," thundered one church magazine after her ordination. "Her beauty might awaken wrong feelings in male parishioners...
...people of the states are extremely conscious of this usurpation of the Constitutional rights of the states, but much needs to be done to awaken the states to their perilous condition. There is a crying need for the states to organize into a compact, expressing the feeling of the states with reference to these usurpations, the consequent destruction of our Constitutional form of government, and presenting a common front against such unconstitutional encreachment by the federal government...
...Awakening Whitehall. Deliberately disregarding private assurances from Macmillan that his government is committed to political integration with the Six, West Germany's Chancellor based his misgivings on the purposefully vague statements in the House of Commons by which Macmillan has sought to soft-pedal this potentially explosive issue. When cables reporting Adenauer's TV comments came clattering into London from the British embassy in Bonn late one night, Macmillan was sufficiently irked to prod the Foreign Office into action forthwith. At i a.m., when it takes a major crisis to awaken Whitehall, the government released excerpts from...