Word: heterodoxical
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...discharge, he went to Yale, where he taught Spanish and toured with the debating team. Very large on campus (Torch Honor Society, Fence Club, Elizabethan Club, Skull and Bones), he became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his junior year and used its editorial column to disseminate his heterodox views...
...week resigned the honorary title of auxiliary bishop given him by his diocese in order not to embarrass or involve his successor in the quarrel. Time and again since his consecration, Pike has been denounced by clergy and laymen as an apostate in bishop's clothing for his heterodox views. But never before have such accusations been leveled at him by a fellow bishop, much less so influential a prelate as Henry Louttit, 63, a Southern moderate who is a member of the church's powerful Executive Council...
...centuries. The coup would not have been possible without the Berbers, the fierce, proud indigenes of Africa's northwest corner who in the 8th century were engulfed (but not permanently subdued) by the Islamic invaders from Arabia. The Berbers adopted the Moslem religion, but their practices were eccentric-heterodox in some ways (e.g., they eat wild boar's flesh), rigidly fundamentalist in others. Unlike the urban Arabs in Morocco, the rural Berbers have remained steadfastly pro-French...
Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey...
...different countries, or even of different laboratories, have been reinforced. Criteria for the granting of scholarships and fellowships by the government become more forbidding every year. And the grounds on which scientists are denied employment in any department of the government have expanded to include the remotest connections with heterodox political movements...