Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When decapitation and crucifixion were not effective, the shoguns invented tsurushi, in which the victim was suspended head downward in a pit, often partly filled with offal, to hang in agony sometimes a week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom...
...school district of Aldine, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston, is a spectacular example of money over mind. Two years ago, the Aldine taxpayers' association got full control of the seven-man school board, and nothing but penny-pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45,000) has had three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after...
Even if he failed as a recruiter, Terry Dene could take comfort that somebody still wanted to recruit him. At St. George's Church, in London's working-class Camberwell district, Anglican Father Geoffrey Beaumont followed prayers for a new bishop with another: "Let us pray for Terry Dene, a young man who has been very ill." Father Beaumont, already mildly celebrated for his use of jazz during sacred services (TIME, April 1, 1957), explained: "Terry Dene represents the sort of thing I want to bring into my church...
Died. James G. Polk, 62, Democratic Congressman from Ohio's sixth district (1931-40, and since 1949), who described himself in the Congressional Directory as "one of the few members of Congress whose sole occupation is farming"; of cancer; in Washington...
Margaret Canty, a former secretary at the University, pleaded innocent in East Cambridge District Court Thursday to five counts of larcency. She is being held in $29,500 bond for the grand jury...