Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill. Whether, as the Democrats claim, Eisenhower might have prevented this devious behavior is open to question. It is possible that Ike's inaction on the question was based on his principle of "quiet leadership," although on other issues he has exerted himself conspicuously. One factor in this particular disintegration of White House leadership was the President's somewhat disabling post-operation convalescene at the time. Whatever the cause, by allowing Republican legislators to play political shuttlecock with a vital problem, Ike has let the seed of his prestige fall on stony ground...
Then, before leaving the field to Rival Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike defined for his audience his idea of what the G.O.P. should be. It should be "committed to no group," yield to "no particular pressure," have as its sole motive the welfare of 168 million Americans. If a measure is good for all Americans, advised Ike, "get behind it and shove." If it is not, "don't let them sell it to you, no matter how attractive it looks for votes or anything else...
...contention of Allegro and others that the so-called Teacher of Righteousness was a single historical personage, martyred by "the Wicked Priest," and whose resurrection was awaited. The title, which Gaster prefers to translate "True exponent of the Law," refers, he says, to "a continuing office rather than a particular individual, and . . . the various allusions to him are not in fact to one and the same person." He believes that various documents probably refer to different teachers at different times...
Weil-Known Facts. What of the social problem? By week's end, teachers and principals had paraded before the subcommittee citing instances of student disorder and violence. Of each witness Gerber asked whether the number of pregnancies in their particular school had increased since integration (in many cases they had). He also extracted testimony about molestation of white girls, about thefts and fights. But not all the testimony bolstered the subcommittee's thesis that integration is a proven failure. After Hugh Smith, white principal of the formerly all-white Jefferson Junior High School (now 55% Negro) had testified...
World Peace depends on attacking the underlying causes of war-in particular, low standards of living, threats to human liberty, greed and the love of power. In addition, Methodists everywhere should earnestly "support every attempt to secure a reduction of the crippling burden of armaments, and in particular the cessation of the development of nuclear power for purposes...