Word: krucifix
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...public square, the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby. Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection, hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled and trampled on it -- but the Klan had a new cross up within days. Meanwhile, the two vandals were arrested under the very democratic principles that a century of Klansmen have never understood...
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