Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student in my course has told me that an anonymous person called him to ask whether his instructors were teaching "strange and dangerous things." He asked specifically about "history and social studies kinds of courses." On the student's request, the caller identified himself as "a member of an organization of citizens." On the student's further request for the name of the organization, the caller remarked that the name was "irrelevant...
...story, Sobell's lawyers claimed that he never met Greenglass when he said he did. They said Gold's hotel registration card was forged (supposedly by the FBI). Wholly unproved, ruled Judge Weinfeld, quietly noting that Sobell's petition contained no affidavit from the one person who knows the facts-the still available room clerk who presumably handled the card...
After publicly burning his draft card as a "symbolic protest" in Manhattan in 1965, Roman Catholic Pacifist David J. Miller, 24, became the first person to be convicted under a new law that makes card burning punishable by a $10,000 fine or five years' imprisonment, or both. When Miller appealed his suspended three-year sentence, he argued that Congress had enacted the law deliberately to suppress dissent. Indeed, the bill's proponents made no secret of the fact that it was aimed at "beatniks"-meaning critics of the U.S. war effort in Viet...
...former Celtics Coach Red Auerbach, now the club's general manager, coaching has improved the quality of Bill's play. "He never had to consider the feelings of other players before," explains Auerbach. "Now that he does have to think of others, he has grown as a person and gained added motivation as a player...
Signifying Maturity. In other Protestant churches the rite has somewhat less significance. In the United Church of Christ liturgy, confirmation indicates that a person is "accepted into full church membership." Methodists have a simple "order for confirmation and reception into the church," carried out by the minister by the laying on of hands...