Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear is moving across the courtroom now in waves. I am very scared that I will never get out. I look across the aisle at the Harvard people who surely will not get out, and I am certain they are very brave. Then the bailiff says, "Michael Glass to the stand please." And I am frightened to death. At that instance I am sure he has called me to the stand. Wasn't that my name? Then someone else walks up, but I am not reassured because I am certain that I am next. I look across the aisle...
...first Christian cells-under ground churchlets in constant fear of persecution-were united by a common faith rather than any formal organization. Initially, there was no strong distinction between clergy and laymen; bishops were frequently chosen by the people at informal assemblies. In the post-Apostolic period, the special place of Rome came to be recognized by other churches-not as having any monarchical jurisdiction but as a symbol of Christian unity and court of appeals in doctrinal disputes. Even so, the epoch-making decisions on heresy that beset the early church were resolved by general councils in Asia Minor...
...fears, I am fearful! I fear the loss of grace (which I do believe in), not because I use birth control but because the church denies me the grace-giving sacraments. I miss Communion most of all, and I cry when my daughters receive the sacrament. Why do I not receive Communion? I suppose it's because I cannot fully tear myself from the early years of teaching. I don't feel that I am wrong, but where will I find absolution if my own church says I am wrong...
After they cast their ballots, many voters were given white chits by the precinct captains. Chit in hand, each voter then left the polling place and entered an alley. Novak did not follow for fear of his own safety, but he implied that Chicago still has the best voters that money can buy. This was the kind of performance that has come to be expected of the Evans-Novak team, which avoids pontificating and concentrates on examining the inner machinery of politics. Evans and Novak were not alone in discovering election irregularities in Chicago. The Chicago Daily News reported that...
...blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship was in danger, as she often was) for fear that prayer would rob them of the will to work...