Word: directed
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...Methodist with little personal knowledge of Catholicism. However, it would appear that papal pronouncements are as confining and deadly as the Pharisees'. Is the Catholic Church that says it is the direct line from Jesus going to renounce his humanism for the system of legalism that prevented his acceptance by the Jews...
Financially, Humphrey felt the polls had hurt him. He remarked several times that he received fewer donations at the outset of his campaign because the polls had marked him with the stigma of defeat. A more direct danger, however, is that polls can be deliberately manipulated by office holders and office seekers alike to influence public opinion...
When the poll was completed, a Times editor sent a reporter to a few of the addresses polled to get some direct quotes and discovered that the buildings didn't exist. Gallup scrapped the poll when he was told, and explained that because only black interviewers could be used it had been necessary to hire some people who were not on the regular staff. Two of these had falsified their data. Gallup explained that one of the primary means of checking interviews--spot checks by telephone--had been ineffective because there are so few phones in Harlem. He didn...
...have bitterly divided the ruling junta into hawks and doves. Possibly as a result, there was a government shake-up involving four of the original junta officers. Hard-lining former Colonel Ioannis Ladas was switched from the Public Order Ministry to the Interior Ministry, in the process losing direct control of the nation's police. He refused his new post. Ladas, and two other junta members, were balking at their reassignments. Premier Papadopoulos, intent on avoiding further damage to his government's reputation abroad, seemed to have sided with the doves, who wanted to spare the condemned...
...Queen Mother Wilhelmina's estate. Rumor held Miss Hofmans responsible for a growing rift between Bernhard and Juliana, and when the stories got into print in 1956, they stirred a storm that ended only when the palace announced that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations, direct or indirect, with Miss Hofmans...