Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they're looking for." Indeed, "they" were. For 3½ days more than 600 searchers-FBI agents, sheriff's deputies, airmen, Boy Scouts-had been frantically stalking a 20-square-mile section of the state. The Post Office had intercepted a crudely written ransom note demanding $10,000 in exchange for Lee Crary's return. Safe at last in the hands of FBI interrogators, Lee devoted 90 minutes to his excruciatingly detailed story...
...live in 6,000 more or less rigidly segregated communities. Commercial firms generally refuse to hire them, and when an eta seeks to "pass over" by hiding his origins, discovery can mean divorce, suicide, and occasionally even murder. In Saitama prefecture one day recently, an eta suicide left a note saying: "Even in death I cannot forget I am an eta. I hope I will be reborn in a better place.'' In Tokyo last year, an appeal for nondiscrimination brought offers from a number of small business firms to hire etas. But of 40 who were hired...
Wrote Dr. Fisher in the monthly Canterbury Diocesan Notes: "Sin is an offence against God. Its measurements do not vary from age to age as man's laws do ... So then, whatever from time to time the criminal law may say, homosexual offences are sins; the life of a prostitute is a life of sin; the men, many of them regarded by themselves and others as reasonably respectable citizens and certainly not criminals, who add their own sin to the sin of the prostitute are sinners ... A crime is a different matter, a sin against society and social order...
...school teacher. Having been sent to an island resort to get over her infatuation, she promptly falls for a crude, shrewd young local fisherman. After a stolen hour of duel-like talk and romance by the sea, he simply lifts the money in her purse and disappears, leaving a note that reads...
...result is," Henry said, "that the only way we can fill out a class of 1100 is by using this forced commuter plan. While we are most certainly not satisfied with it," he added, 'it is interesting to note that out of the 120 candidates we admitted in this category, 95 accepted, an unusually high percentage considering the circumstances...