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...Hughes has the crowd with him, and he announces his solution: "What this nation needs more than anything else is a new era of forgiveness and reconciliation." It's an old idea, Whitmanesque and almost corny. Yet, Hughes firmly believes it, and from it at last he can slip comfortably into his gospel preacher role. He begins to speak of the Divine Creator and the gospel of education, anti-hunger, and equality. There, in the Sheraton Plaza, of all places, a religious movement is being built...
Official scoring for the title matches was not made public but after the first round of the Farneti-O'Neal bout. Lamar signaled referee Dick Flaherty to award no points for the round. After the standoff in the first round. Farnetli started to slip in his left jab and began to show an advantage in quickness...
...Lord said: 'Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' " Is there a more ominous curse in the Bible? It breathes hard upon us at this time of frantic change, when old purposes slip out from under the words that used to cover them, leaving the words like tombstones over empty graves...
...roustabout who fled the religious wars of home. "At 6 in the morning, it's dark, wet and cold. You begin sweeping the water from the deck that accumulates from the night's mists. The deck must be kept dry so that the men don't slip and fall. Everything is steel, so a fall can really do damage. Whatever you do, you get filthy. Your hands, your face, your shoes, trousers and shirt become smeared with grease, rust and mud chemicals. I never knew 14 days could take so long." Smiley Dunaway, 55, from Columbia, Miss...
...every time you slip...