Word: fundamentalistism
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...fraud and a snare"), and the United Nations ("It hasn't accomplished a thing except to permit a spy ring to operate within our country"). Also opposing Kuchel is Loyd Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association, who is campaigning as a states' rights fundamentalist. Although not a Birch Society member, Wright says, "I wish we had 10,000 more -perhaps 10 million-of the kind of men I know are in this society...
...there," says the fundamentalist, "and it's accurately described in the Book of Revelation. Heaven has twelve gate's and a 144-cubit wall...
...Lavrinc's life began to fall apart. He had two children whom he adored, but his marriage was breaking up. When Piedmont transferred Lavrinc to Washington, he left his wife and children in Norfolk. Always a thoughtful man, he turned more and more to religion. He joined the fundamentalist Cherrydale Independent Baptist Church in Arlington, attended Sunday services, Bible study classes, prayer meetings, and kept a diary in which he recorded his deepest religious feelings. Before the end of 1957, he filed suit for divorce, charging that Bonnie Lavrinc had "manifested interest in other men." Bonnie filed a cross...
...flying (he had logged a total of 5,101 hours before his death) and his purposeful dedication to religion. He worked with alcoholics, tried to convert a Roman Catholic, helped conduct services at a local jail, plunged into the Youth for Christ movement. He lived for a time with fundamentalist families, later moved into a trailer park. Most of all, he longed for his children. Says a friend, recalling how Lavrinc had missed his daughter: "He said he had always wanted a little blonde-headed girl, and now that he had her, he couldn't be with...
...puritanical fundamentalist," who emphasizes morality and abstention from drinking, smoking, gambling and swearing...