Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth of the "Kennedy dynasty" as a result of Tuesday's election Howe described as "very frightening." He considered it "a serious breach of a principle of democratic government...
...Cuba now goes beyond the question of United States-Cuba relations. The American blockade is not directed against Castro, because Castro poses no military threat to our security. It is directed against the Soviet Union, and it is the Soviet Union which must have bear the responsibility for any breach of the peace which may occur...
...against the risk of dictatorship, reminding France that direct presidential elections in 1848 resulted in the seizure of power by Bonaparte's nephew, Louis Napoleon. A motion of censure was passed, charging De Gaulle with "violating the constitution of which he is the guardian, and thus opening a breach through which an adventurer might some day pass to overthrow the Republic and suppress liberty...
...Western church. Fourth Lateran, convened by Pope Innocent III in 1215, was attended (according to tradition) by St. Francis and St. Dominic, condemned clerical loose-living, and approved rules for the Inquisition. Two of the medieval councils-Lyon (1274) and Florence (1439-45)-tried to patch up the breach between Eastern and Western Christianity that had existed since 1054. A delegation of Greek bishops at Florence recognized Pope Eugenius IV as head of the church. But Orthodox monks and parish priests were opposed to reunion, and the delegates renounced the agreement. "May our hands, which signed the unjust decree...
...light of the YDCHR's insistence on its right to endorse candidates in primaries, endorsement of one of Kennedy's opponents would "open us to a charge of a breach of good faith with the Democratic party," Greene concluded...