Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private life may be," said he in answer to a Look reporter's question, "for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts-including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state." The Catholic press across the U.S. charged Kennedy with taking a "religious test" for public office, raising an issue where none exists on division of church and state...
Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While others pushed at him in terror, Charley Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved...
...years now, echoes have come across the lost horizon from remote Tibet that the Chinese Communists were having trouble digesting their 1950 conquest. Many of the reports of revolt and fighting came from refugees who in their excitement did not have all the facts straight, and when the details collapsed, so did the reports. But in 1957 Peking itself confirmed that all was not well: faced with passive opposition from Tibet's powerful Buddhist lamas and landlords, the Reds announced postponement of Communist "reforms" in Tibet for another six years...
...ignoring the principle of double jeopardy caused the Havana, Santiago and National Bar Associations to protest. A defense attorney for the airmen, Carlos Peña Justiz, said the reversal could stamp Castro as "a new Napoleon in the Caribbean." Muttered Castro: "Reactionary." As he spoke, firing squads across the island were busy building the week's execution total to 30, the overall accounting...
...Courage to Be. The only way man can cope with his existential anxiety is by having the "courage to be," which Tillich defines as self-affirmation in spite of the threatened possibility of nonbeing. This courage to be is like a spark across the gap between existential and essential, philosophy and theology, man and God. For this human, self-affirming courage-unlike Nietzsche's Will to Power-has its source and power in "the divine self-affirmation...