Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That may explain why the Soviet Baptists are supposed to get a seminary soon, their first since 1928.' The Baptist faith, the main Protestant group, was often persecuted by the Czars because of Orthodox dominance so that when Lenin suppressed Orthodoxy after the Revolution, he was at first lenient with Baptists. But since the late 1920s Baptists have not fared well. They number 200,000 in the Ukraine, about half the official total in the U.S.S.R...
...left the magazine, had to be invited back to give it intellectual tone again. At this point Hugh Hefner, a circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book," Esquire made a wobbly retreat from barbershop sexism. Soon its advertising men protested that Esquire had become too stuffy and intellectual...
...take back 8.7 million "500" radial tires, a move that so far has cost the company $147 million. She has also established tough fuel economy standards (27 m.p.g. by 1984) and stuck to them despite protests from manufacturers. Some of her former consumer-rights colleagues claim Claybrook was too lenient in postponing the deadline for airbags; Ralph Nader has called her an "accommodator" and demanded her resignation. Detroit wants her to go for other reasons: the Georgetown-trained lawyer is known in the industry as the Dragon Lady. Says Claybrook: "I think that having critics is just a part...
...shock and appall the rest of the world." Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against Dan White, the slayer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
Civil rights or civil war!" chanted 4,000 demonstrators last week in the heart of San Francisco's homosexual community. They were enraged over a jury's lenient verdict of voluntary manslaughter against Dan White, a disgruntled politician who last November shot down San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a homosexual leader...