Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union with Greece will fight back. One night last week a masked gunman entered a coffee shop in the village of Polis, ordered a Turkish Moslem constable to rise, then shot him dead. The murder, which islanders attributed to the underground EOKA terrorists, set off a round of communal fighting. For three days knives flashed and stones flew as Turk fought Greek in ugly little scrimmages all over the island. Scores were hurt. Many Greek-owned shops were wrecked. Crying "civil war," Fazil Kutchuk, leader of the Cyprus-Is-Turkish party, wired Ankara for Turkish government support...
...Izzat climbed tensely down from an airliner at Lydda airport for a ten-day tour of Israel. Just in case things got too hot for Izzat, the Israelis gave him an armed guard and a false name. As George Ibrahim Habib, a "South American journalist," he saw lots of communal settlements, some Arab villages, no military installations. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier was ready to meet him and talk peace any time, anywhere...
When spiritual enthusiasts beat the material world at its own game, is it unfair competition? That is the question laid before South Dakota's Circuit Court for decision last week. The more than 1,500 Hutterites of South Dakota, living on 15 booming communal farms in the fertile valleys of the James and Missouri Rivers, are fighting a law that prohibits them from buying more land. Without more land the Hutterite communities in South Dakota are doomed...
...visitor last week. "I'm not opposed to them as people," he said. "But their people work without pay, and the land is in the hands of the church. The people are nothing more or less than a Communist setup. The children grow up without anything but a communal attitude. It isn't the American way, certainly. They take over large areas. It's equivalent to what happens in the city when Negroes move into a neighborhood. Others move out and the prices drop. Of course they're less prone to psychotic or neurotic troubles because...
...ministers had what Sociologist Blizzard calls a "theological concept" of the church. Of these, 37% were "individualistic" ("The church is the place where an individual has a personal experience with God"), and 33% were "sacramental" ("The church is the mediator of God's grace"). Thirty percent held a "communal" view of the church ("We are a fellowship of believers...