Word: originating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tracing the historical development of this four-party pattern. He writes, "The congressional Democrats began as the Madison party in Congress and the presidential [Democratic] party was founded and built by Jefferson. The symbolic founder of the Republican presidential party was Abraham Lincoln; the congressional [Republican] party had its origin in the opposition to Pierce and Buchanan on the Hill during the 1850s and with the congressional Republicans who went on to fight Lincoln during the Civil War and to dominate Reconstruction...
...that a virus causes the cancer may be an oversimplification. The tubercle bacillus is the one essential factor in tuberculosis, but mil lions of people carry the bacillus without ever developing the disease. By analogy, researchers argue, it may be that viruses, or viruslike particles of whatever origin, are essential factors in human as well as in animal cancers. But it takes something else as well to bring on the disease, even though the virus particles may have been harbored for half a lifetime...
Israel's "Law of the Return" is not a restriction of immigration on religious grounds, comparable to our own restrictions on the basis of country of origin, so much as an unprecedented liberalization of immigration laws to meet the special tragic need of the Jewish people. Israel has never faltered in the fulfillment of this responsibility, taking in the sick, the lame and the aged, and jeopardizing its own survival by doubling its population in the brief span of 15 years. RABBI DAVID GREENBERG Scarsdale Synagogue Scarsdale...
...century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library, the Pope mumbled: "Mrs. Kennedy, Madame; Madame, Mrs. Kennedy." Then the doors opened on the U.S. First Lady and he stood up, extended his arms and cried: "Jacqueline...
...Hassel's unusual first names are of archaic Frisian origin and often encountered in North Germany. Uwe (pronounced oo-vuh) is similar to Oswald, while Kai (rhymes with sky) is a near-perfect name for a German politician. It means: "One who is dangerous to his enemy...