Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of sending an ambassador to the Vatican. I don't. I see no good that such a move can do for anyone. It will upset non-Catholics. It will revive old suspicions of the Pope's plans and hopes. It will cheer an already over-truculent element in American Catholicism . . . The Pope is the bishop of Rome. We have an ambassador at Rome. Can he not call on the bishop as part...
Several of his "boys" went over to the mike and attacked the evangelists. The crowd surged over and fighting broke out. The more rational element in the mob gained the upper hand, and soon restored order. But during the entire scene, Feeney merely stood on his podium and grinned impishly. He later commented how "wonderfully my boys help...
...cigar and called the principal "Skinny"; 3) picked a fight with the toughest kid in school and whaled him into quivering wreckage. Garza spoke knowingly of his ability to "blow the weed" (smoke marijuana), within the week had been nicknamed "Weedhead" and was the swaggering leader of the worst element in the institution...
Because of the time element involved, Beer pointed out, the owner of a hall may not bother to check thoroughly into the nature of groups which request use of his building, and thereby refuse many legitimate organizations...
School days brought spoon-fed indoctrination. Sample: at the end of each drawing class, the teacher would draw "a big, five-pointed star on the blackboard, which we had to copy . . . This was called 'the bringing of the revolutionary element into the subject...