Word: objectore
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...Conscientious objector available for non-combatant service only...
...soft-spoken, dark-complexioned, conscientious objector named Igal Roodenko pulled the idea that pacificism is the only alternative to biological suicide, from the ceiling of the Hall of Graduate Studies last night and coolly tossed it into the scattered laps of his small audience. --From the Yale Daily News, March...
Political Career: At 27 became part-time secretary of the newly formed London Labor Party (salary: ?1 weekly). Conscientious objector in World War I. Elected to Parliament in 1923, appointed Minister of Transport (1929-31) in Britain's second Labor government. Later (1934-40) became a dynamic leader of the London County Council, concentrated on clearing the Dickensian squalor of London's slums, had notices put up in schools saying: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
Cheer from Coffins. Conscientious Objector Fry was assigned to a Pioneer Corps outfit cleaning up rubble all over bombed Britain. He converted his tough sergeant to Shakespeare and occasionally awed him, when he gave what Fry considered unreasonable orders, with a geyser of Falstaffian curses. After war's end, his Phoenix ran for 64 performances in London's West End. Wrote one critic: "Mr. Fry could make a ghoul laugh ... He gets more cheerfulness out of coffins than most people would from the abolition of bread rationing...
...despise the term 'conscientious objector' and we despise the philosophy back of it ... We are not pacifists, and we believe in force for justice's sake, but a Seventh Day Adventist cannot take human life...