Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty, does not fit easily into any ideological category, claims: "I'm the conservatives' liberal and the liberals' conservative." He favors reliance on free markets, but at the same time believes the Government is responsible for avoiding the extremes of poverty. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chief economic consultant for the Committee for Economic Development, a research organization supported by industry...
...favorite of the hardliners. They became increasingly disillusioned with him after he encouraged the drafting and promulgation of a constitution that ultimately would bring back exiled King Constantine and put the junta out of business. The breaking point came late last month, when Papadopoulos overruled a decision by his fellow military officers and stayed the execution of Alexandros Panaghoulis, a 30-year-old army private who had been convicted of an assassination attempt on the Premier's life...
Judge Oske's reasoning took another tack. It is one that could, if it is accepted as a precedent, free 45 remaining former Nazi judges and prosecutors from prosecution. Oske insisted that Rehse and his seven fellow judges on Freisler's dreaded Volksgerichtshof did not deliberately subvert the law as then applicable. Thus, while the sentences in which Rehse participated were "inhuman as seen today, in times of war no nation and no state can get along with normal means of defense. Germany was in a life-and-death struggle...
...both men were Christian activists who found in the Word a command to do. Barth stood courageously against Nazi totalitarianism. Merton drove himself endlessly in championing the cause of the poor and oppressed. On their journey toward their deaths last week, each brought to his age, and to his fellow man, a message of love that was ardently Christian...
...that could be caustic or self-critical; a friend called him the only Swiss with a sense of humor. He was aggressively anti-Nazi, yet strangely unconcerned about Communist aggression. An ordained minister of the Reformed Church, he delivered his best sermons before those whom he called his fellow sinners-the prisoners in the Basel jail...