Word: abolisher
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...over. They might as well abolish the name of Radcliffe and let them run through the Yard," bewailed one Harvard...
...suggesting that we lightly cast aside our cherished Southern traditions," Valentine likes to say. "I am suggesting that we throw them aside with great vigor wherever they violate the spirit of the Bible." His objections to segregation are firmly religious. "We need to abolish racial discrimination in our country and our churches not because of a clause in the Constitution or because of the Communist challenge, nor yet because we need the votes of the watching world. We need to conquer race prejudice because it is a sin against almighty God and a rejection of the precious blood of Jesus...
Cautious Feds. Among "feasible" reforms, Martin Luther King calls for a new U.S. law making it a federal crime to intimidate or murder any person "in pursuit of constitutional rights." He seeks Negro employment "on every level of law enforcement agencies." To "abolish lynch law from Dixie juries," he thinks federal officials ought "to select and constitute jury panels in state as well as federal cases...
...Government Department has decided not to abolish all grades in Government 99. Its new policy will base marks entirely on the senior thesis...
...Federalist No. 10, Madison wrote that "liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life." Historically, such liberty could have led to splinter-party chaos; the U.S. instead channeled the political urge into two institutionalized parties. In their adversary relationship, they act as delicate checks upon one another, capitalizing on the deep American fear of unrestrained power. Though few voters would...