Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheers for Cardinal Mclntyre. A pox on these so-called clergy who, under the guise of moral leadership, insinuate that they represent the majority and exert powerful pressures on our legislatures to pass minority legislation. Muzzle them or remove them. The clergy has no business meddling in politics or agitating violence...
Some suggest that Dirksen wanted to placate the conservative wing of the party. This they argue, gives him the image of a "reasonable" man and allows him to exert strenuous leadership in support of vital, liberal, bi-partisan measures like the Test Ban Treaty and the Civil Rights Bill...
...state, once the fighting has begun, the law becomes a matter of interpretation. An attacked person is legally permitted to exert only as much force as is necessary to repel the aggressor. But what is reasonable? In Washington last month, as Frances Clark, a comely 24-year-old, sat in a Chinese restaurant, a man named Zebedee Lee, 42, walked over and, by his own admission, "patted her on the buttocks." Grabbing a knife, Miss Clark stabbed him in the stomach, putting him in the hospital. Though Lee's act was technically an assault, the district attorney felt that...
...policy in two other areas, Vietnam and the multi-nuclear force in Europe, because the policy appears not to be final. He added that while the direction seems likely to "go the wrong way--toward increased military spending," these are two areas where peace groups should work and exert pressure...
...Sephardic Jews who fled the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions for the safety of Cromwell's England in the 17th century. Others belong to the wealthy, literate Anglo-Jewish families, such as the banking Rothschilds, who began to leave the ghettos of Europe 100 years later and came to exert great economic and political power in Britain. Liberal in outlook, sometimes casual in religious observance, traditional Anglo-Jewry is oddly yoked with more recent immigrants from Eastern Europe-rigidly Orthodox Jews, fearful that their traditional beliefs will be corrupted by the alien world of the goyim...