Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jehovah's Witness. Though Hurd was born in New Mexico, he has Eastern ties. His father was a Boston lawyer who settled in dry New Mexico for his health. Hurd attended West Point for two years, quit because art interested him more than mathematics. He recalls that his father-apparently ignorant of the aborted West Point career of James McNeill Whistler-responded by saying, "You are an utter jackass...
...young artist's idol was the lusty illustrator, N. C. Wyeth; one fateful day the grand old man telephoned him. "It was like the Lord Jehovah calling," says Hurd...
...years since the revolution, and yet the Russian Orthodox Church still claims 50 million members in a population of 226 million; in addition, there are at least 25 million Moslems, 3.5 million Jews, and uncounted thousands who have been converted from nonbelief by the Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses...
...year-old mother of a small child, was in a Washington, D.C., hospital dying of a bleeding ulcer. Doctors were convinced that a blood transfusion was necessary to save her life. But the hospital needed her consent or her husband's, and both refused to say yes; as Jehovah's Witnesses, they believed that transfusions were contrary to the will...
...ways of this made-in-America faith, but the rest of the world often treats it as an unwanted import. In Sweden, young male Witnesses regularly spend a total of ten months in prison for refusing to accept compulsory military service. In the Soviet Union, dozens of Jehovah's Witnesses are found guilty each year on charges that range from subversion to smuggling...