Word: molests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simbas in the Buta area north of Stanleyville, life had not been too bad. Although they had been bypassed by the mercenary-led columns that had cleared most of the rest of the northeast Congo, their captors had treated them well. The rebel commander ordered his Simbas not to molest them, and many of the Europeans still lived in their own houses. Some, after giving their word of honor that they would return to Buta, were permitted brief visits to government-held towns. The commander even allowed one Belgian nun to go on home leave-on condition that she bring...
...Bunting is also examining the possibility of allowing men above the first floor after 5 p.m. Miss Porritt is not in favor of the idea because an additional attendant would be needed on the second floor so "men could not get upstairs to molest the girls...
Last year Duskin launched Emerson, named for Ralph Waldo, by simply renting a gabled Victorian mansion in Pacific Grove, a dry town founded by Methodists that seems at times as whimsical in its way as Emerson. For example, the municipal code forbids "any person to molest or interfere with the peaceful occupancy of the monarch butterflies on their annual visit to the city of Pacific Grove." Pacific Grove gives Emersonians the butterfly treatment. "They're a little weird," says the chief of police, "but I kind of like seeing them around...
...name Catherine-in Indian, Kateri. Her Mohawk family and their friends gave the young Christian a hard time. Her refusal to work on Sunday made it a fast day-"If you won't work, you won't eat," said her aunts. Uncle Onsegongo encouraged drunken braves to molest her; children called her names and threw stones at her. Father de Lamberville contrived to spirit her away from the village to a missionary settlement in Canada...
...Kurt Hahn thought out his concept of a school while a student at Oxford's Magdalen College, where he watched tame deer browsing .spiritlessly in the park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the overly contented. His "seven laws": 1) give children opportunities for selfdiscovery; 2) make them meet with triumph and defeat; 3) give them the opportunity for self-effacement in a common cause; 4) provide periods of silence; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games important but not predominant; 7) free...