Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern white," wrote Carter, "is increasingly overcoming all but one of the emotional biases inherited from 250 mutually blighting years of a master & slave relationship. The one: the white South's insistence upon segregation in the mass . .. [It] is as united as 30 million people can be in its insistence on segregation . . . But [its] evolution is being immeasurably slowed down by the ferocity, the punitive spirit and the lack of balanced approach which Ray Sprigle's articles in great part exemplify . . . How about giving some recognition to the good things that are happening in the South...
...roads, $50-a-month old age pensions. Sad Sam Jones promised too, but Earl was as specific as the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He made it plain that a vote for Long was an order for material improvement. He abused the newspapers. Like Huey, he recited Invictus: "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul...
That left Claxton to do the honors, and he had an unhappy time. In mid-speech, a gust of wind ripped away the sheet that veiled the plaque, wrapped it around the master of ceremonies. After this diversion, Claxton ran afoul of a rain squall that sent most of his audience scurrying. He still had five minutes to go, and he went right on talking...
...Hearst's Journal-American Paul Gallico wound himself up and let himself go: "Home was the Home Run King . . . For this was what Ruth was king and master of -the stroke that led to home. All men are ever turning homeward. The very baseball phrase-'Home Run'-has a music of its own . . ." On the sport page, Bill Corum told how he had known for some time that "the Great Umpire had his thumb pressed against 'strike three' on the final and inescapable indicator." And Sport Editor Jimmy Powers, a more literary fellow, quoted John...
...what happened through Him did not come to an end when 'the days of His flesh' ended, though His disciples thought it would and were appalled . . . Very soon afterwards they made two great discoveries: that the divine Presence of which they had become aware while their Master was with them in the flesh had come back to them, and . . . that this experience . . . could come to anybody anywhere through the story of Jesus and their witness to its meaning . . . This was something new in mankind's knowledge of God. It could not have come if Jesus...