Word: pacifistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worker and the New Masses. One day, while covering a textile strike in Passaic, he watched a slender girl in a brown beret lead a charge against a police line while a cop yelled: "Get that bitch in the brown beret." Chambers later learned that the girl was a pacifist named Esther Shemitz. They were married in 1931. Four years later, the Communist Party ordered Chambers to Washington as a member of the Fourth Section of the Soviet Military Intelligence...
...Indian. He antagonized local medicos by treating, for free, the youngsters and oldsters that most of them were refusing to treat even for a fee. Still, the County Medical Society let him in. Then a storm blew up over an unrelated matter: Dr. O'Rourke's Quaker-pacifist wife refused, on grounds of conscience, to pledge allegiance to the flag. Dr. O'Rourke figured that he had better offer to resign...
...heretics and critical of the church. Several plays have been written about them, and literary reviews have published long articles. Hundreds of weekenders are climbing the 4,000-ft. rock atop which stands Montségur, the holy citadel of Catharism, where 300 soldiers and 200 unarmed, pacifist Cathari stood off an army of 10,000 for ten months before being burned at one huge stake for their "pure Christian" beliefs...
...Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament made militarylike preparations for the pacifist pilgrimage. Marchers got nine pages of advance instructions (e.g., "Don't bring very young children or dogs," "Don't wear anything that will distract the attention of the would from our great issues"). Delegations from towns and foreign countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare...
More than half an hour before the sentencing, the courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...