Word: plural
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government complain of a hostile U.S. press, asked Winston Churchill last week, "when we have here in this country witnessed such a melancholy exhibition as that provided by some of our most time-honored and responsible journals. . . ." Although the Prime Minister made "journals" plural, everyone in his House of Commons audience (see FOREIGN NEWS) knew that he had particular reference to the London Times-which has lately had considerable to say about Britain's intervention in Greece...
...living as man and wives. Similar posses in other cities swiftly followed suit. By nightfall State and Federal police had dragged from bedroom & parlor, and jailed 50 men and women in Utah, Idaho, Arizona. It was the biggest raid on polygamists since the orthodox Mormon Church officially outlawed plural marriage...
...members), solidly respectable Mormon Church has learned that polygamy dies hard. Despite Mormon President Wilford Woodruff's 1890 revelation that the world was not yet ripe for plural marriage, there have been periodic polygamous scandals. Many polygamists went underground, kept their plural families in hideaways sometimes known as "lambing grounds." In the last few years the Mormons have expelled more than 200 men and women for polygamy...
Cried Polygamist Rhea Allred Kunz, mother of eight (see cut; back row, third from left): "Plural marriage cannot be stamped out. Regardless of wars and pestilence, there has always been a surplus of worthy women." Cried Polygamist Rulon C. Allred, husband of six: "Polygamy is a hard thing to live and anyone who thinks it is fun just ought...
...Today all that is changed. Suleiman is trying to get out from under the heavy-hanging title of 'god,' has dropped the plural speech, started speaking of himself in the third person singular. Those of his people rejoice who feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...