Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some future date "to mean things that the Secretary and the President did not mean." Could it permit the Secretary to eliminate a specific function of one of the services? "People do that, sir," said Burke pointedly. "People eliminate things." Arleigh Burke's statement was an unmistakable call to the committee for help: "This committee is a proper group to resolve these differences into a sound plan founded in carefully drawn legislation." It is reassuring to know, he added with emphasis, "that this committee is devoting its full attention to this important matter...
Although an architect has not yet been selected, plans currently call for the new mosque to include prayer facilities, a small library, and a center for Islamic religious festivals. The Islamic Society currently holds services for its one hundred members in Phillips Brooks House...
...This is a business trip," he said, "but I don't like to call it publicity; I prefer to use the word 'promotion.' Yes, we did cut a few feet of the movie in deference to the Legion of Decency. They were going to give it a C-rating. C for Condemned...
...City Council last week expressed its disapproval of the trial plan in a 5-4 roll call vote. The Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, however, voted Tuesday in favor of extending the trial period for another 30 days...
Persistence of sectarianism is promoted strongly by the "conspiracy of silence" or so-called "religious toleration." There is a deadly parallel between the "conspiracy of silence" on sectarianism today with the "conspiracy of silence" on the "social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention the social diseases the diseases were largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians...