Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only response in Djakarta was more anti-Peking outbursts-this time by Indonesians of Chinese descent who were trying to fend off the students' attack by showing where their loyalty lay. Chanting anti-Peking slogans, 40,000 of them paraded through the city. As the demonstrators cheered them on, a mob of about 2,000 broke down the heavy gate to the Chinese Embassy and stormed into the grounds. They smashed windows, tossed books and furniture onto a bonfire in the courtyard, gulped down Chinese wine and wiped the perspiration from their faces with Chinese flags...
...know that millions of married Catholics are now ignoring the rules altogether. As it happens, some competent theologians maintain that they are exactly right. Writing for the Toronto Globe & Mail, Augustinian Theologian Gregory Baum of the University of Toronto argues that since church leaders are themselves divided about contraception, lay Catholics are free to follow their own conscience on the matter, on the principle of Lex dubia non obligat (a doubtful law does not oblige). Father Baum, a peritus (adviser) at the Second Vatican Council, believes that condemnation of contraception is a matter of discipline that involves neither the church...
...many Roman Catholic voices, lay and clerical alike, clamoring for change in the church's stand against contraception are deeply eroding the force of Rome's ban on birth control...
...unknown riflemen who last summer slaughtered more than 100 sea lions on California's Santa Barbara Island, then bravely blew up the unattended ranger station. Second award went to the unidentified vandals who, late last fall in the Cascades, demolished George Tanner's parked Volkswagen while he lay dying of cold and exposure a few hundred yards away...
...question was whether Congress would accept President Johnson's original proposal that a soon-to-be-created Secretary of Transportation be granted "discretionary" powers to establish and enforce safety standards beginning with the 1970 models-or press for a tougher bill making it mandatory for the Secretary to lay down such standards beginning with the '68 models. In support of the harsher version, the committee called up a succession of educators, lawyers, Canadian legislators-and even Teamster Top Dog Jimmy Hoffa, who found himself in the unusual position of being a sympathetic witness in a congressional hearing. Calling...