Word: persecutors
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Witch-hunting had lost much of its glamour by the end of the eighteenth century, but the University faced its perennial housing problem, so the trustees decided to build another monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy...
Surrounded by "enemies" bent on "crucifying" him. Crooner Dick Haymes, fighting to escape being bounced back to his native Argentina, finally suggested the name of one of his persecutors. The accused: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. In Haymes's deportation hearing, one of his lawyers insinuated in a question to a witness that Brownell himself had ordered Haymes arrested while the crooner relaxed off guard, during a supposed 60-day truce with the Government. At week's end, another bit of Haymes's past caught up with him. This time the persecutor was his former wife...
...pious blather-which all but claims Jesus Christ as the founder of the British Labor Party-is, of course, so farfetched and improbable as to be beyond the reach of criticism . . . What strikes me is the omission, in his article, of the name of Tito, the avowed atheist and persecutor of the Christian Church, while it includes the name of Catholic Franco. When one recalls Britain's ardent wooing of Tito, the omission may seem to be less than accidental...
...Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor, she had also paid off wiretapping Sergeant Stoker to the tune of $100 a week. Although they denied it, Sergeants Stoker and Jackson, along with six other cops, were shifted to the sticks. But that didn't stop the hue & cry. Last week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron...
John scorned Harry Truman as "too cowardly to send me to jail" and excoriated him as a persecutor "of a group of citizens against whom he has a malignant personal hatred...