Word: layperson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award makes freedom something more than anarchy because it gives the layperson an idea of what the professional community's consensus is and thus sets up a goal society should try to attain," Meselson said...
...undeveloped. To further confuse the viewer, the film occasionally shows dramatic pictures of fetuses which were stillbirths or were aborted very late in pregnancy. However, the narrator fails to mention this fact, or discuss the difference between a first-trimester fetus and a third-trimester one. Of course, a layperson viewing the film would have little way of recognizing such distortions, and would likely accept the authority of the narrator...
...during the Mass, the last step before full sainthood. Like Kateri, the other four all lived more than three centuries ago. They were missionaries who brought the Christian faith to the people of Brazil, Guatemala and Canada. Kateri is the first American Indian as well as the first American layperson to be beatified...