Word: objectore
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Many Americans now eat a few inches from the floor, "achieving less the look of Roman empresses than that of Bowery bums." The most bitter objector to this sunken state is "the girl whose chief distinction was the practice of sitting on the floor willy-nilly. Now with everyone doing it, all that's left for her is to lie spread-eagled under the matting or to sit on top of the room divider...
...Neuss, had dreamed since he was twelve of inventing a new flying machine. By wartime he had worked out plans for a parachute which would operate on the helicopter principle. The Gestapo interrupted these labors, carting Willy off to a forced-labor camp because he was a conscientious objector. But in searching his house afterwards, they discovered and were fascinated by Willy's plans. With magnificent artfulness, they conceived a simple test of Willy's device: they strapped Willy's parachute on his own back, took him 7,000 ft. up in a fighter plane and pitched...
Edward A. French '54, a conscientious objector, was officially charged with violating the Selective Service Act yesterday, and indications were that French would probably get a lengthy prison sentence...
...case of Edward A. French '54, conscientious objector arrested for draft-dodging, is "a fairly common occurrence," an official of the Fellowship of Reconciliation said last night. Robert A. Lyon, Executive Secretary of the Massachusetts Fellowship group, said that many pacifists, some in this area, face arrest, especially "if their boards are prejudiced against them...
When Martin grew up he became a doctor, but only as a step toward a higher vocation, which he soon began to fulfill by founding a sort of Christian religious cult of his own. When the next war came, Martin registered as a conscientious objector, and served as a medical orderly in North Africa and Italy. One night in a canteen, he had a vision of the infinite brotherhood of human souls. In obedience to it. he called on the British soldiers around him to follow him on a mission of love to the German lines. Instead, his astounded comrades...