Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...persons were put to death during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth were not religious but political. Far more significant, however, is the difference between persecution by the churches of the Reformation and death for heresy. Thomas Cranmer protested against faith by compulsion, and there was a storm of protest in Protestant churches against Calvin's part in the burning of Servetus. We have to bear the burdens of our history but we also have to make distinctions. (THE REV.) JUNIUS J. MARTIN Christ Church, Frederica Saint Simons Island...
...went on the road with smalltime bands. Once in Baton Rouge, a crowd so detested his playing that they smashed his sax, and Bandleader Pee Wee Crayton hired him and then wound up paying him not to play. Now enjoying his first real success, Coleman remains confused by the storm his music has created. Says he: "I just play what I hear and what makes sense...
...shift overseas has raised a storm of protest at home. Some businessmen use it as an argument for higher tariffs; Chambers of Commerce often consider it downright "disloyal"; unions complain that it "exports" U.S. jobs, cuts employment. David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers, says: "Expansion is legitimate, but expansion at the expense of American workers is illegitimate...
...weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor. She runs a worn track to the front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband's next raise will top the flood of monthly bills (it never will)-a tide that never seems to rise as high...
Barnstorming. In Foyil, Okla., after trying to decide what to do with the half of his barn that had survived a storm, Farmer Burt Quigley slept on the problem, woke up to find the remaining portion had been blown down by a second storm...