Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern gentlemen who founded the Southern Baptist Convention with the defense of slavery as a key motivation would be shocked at the Baptists' Christian Life Commission. Battling the deeply segregationist feelings of millions of members of the nation's biggest Protestant denomination, the commission is inexorably turning Southern Baptist opinion toward the acceptance of Negroes as equals...
...when he was through. He wore a charcoal herringbone suit, and he buttoned his vest all the way-so only his tailor knew for sure about those 17-inch biceps, that 46-inch chest and that 32-inch waist. But the banquet toastmaster was not fooled for a second. "Gentlemen," he firmly announced, "I give you Superman...
...Lufthansa Pilot Reinhard Noethel, bringing in a 707 jetliner from Cologne at 39,000 ft., it was the same story?almost. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced on the intercom, "on the left side you can see Boston." Noethel looked out the left side and gasped. "All I could see," he said later, "were some blue lights...
Number three and his friends are leisured little gentlemen of Japan who, finding reality annulled by affluence, seek the meaning of life in the experience of crime. After practicing on the kitten, these terrible tykes go looking for a human victim, and number three knows just the man: the handsome young ship's officer his mother is going to marry. One day he invites the officer on a picnic with his pals. "I'll take care of the sleeping pills," says...
...they listened silently as Ian Smith, in the flat, nasal accent of the settler, read from the eve-of battle speech of Henry V: "That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother, and gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here." When he finished, the Salisbury Municipal Orchestra played God Save the Queen...