Word: creed
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the highest creed of any patriotic American. What better way to spend the holiday than perusing pornographic videos or purchasing a lap dance in Boston’s Combat Zone! City zoning confines the sex shops and strip clubs to this notorious part of Chinatown. How P.C., Boston...
Installed in four segments between 1895 and 1919, the murals depict what Sargent considered the progress of religious experience through history, a successive falling-away of “external” forms, cult and creed, toward an “internal” spiritual communion...
...regardless of creed or religion, should be made to feel uncomfortable when exercising his right to vote. But Rob Meltzer, an observant Jew from Framingham, Massachusetts, does feel uncomfortable. He recently filed a federal civil suit against the town for “impinging upon constitutional rights” by forcing him to vote in the local Methodist church...
...Taylor Branch, Kennedy was especially impressed with King's departure from his prepared text to sound the electrifying refrain that became the oratorical high point of blacks' freedom struggle: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed ... I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live...
...leader cited the compassionate litany of St. Francis of Assisi: "Where there is discord, let there be harmony." It would be the last conciliatory message from this aggressive, even strident, Prime Minister, who boasted, "I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician!" Her conservative creed transformed Britain: she broke the unions' stranglehold, flogged the business world out of complacency, altered the welfare-state mentality and boldly fought a war over the Falkland Islands, some 8,000 miles away. And she did it all her way. --By Bonnie Angelo, London bureau chief from...