Word: precept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deliberately turning his back on his supporters, Frondizi refused to legalize the Peronistas as a political party, outlawed the Communists, clamped down on the Castroites. He violated every nationalistic precept by dealing with foreign oil companies to develop Argentina's state-owned oilfields, a task the oilmen proceeded to work at so diligently that Argentina expects to turn from an importer to an exporter of oil this year. He let foreign power companies expand Argentine electric power production, threw open the nation's iron-ore beds to overseas investors...
...faces the kiss of death, a slow and imperceptible decline into the abyss of assimilation!" Ben-Gurion, whose devotion to Judaism as a religion is something short of wholehearted, did not scruple to quote Jewish scripture for his own purposes. Every day spent abroad, he pointed out, violates the precept of the Talmud that says, "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have...
Said its president. Rabbi David I. Golo-vensky: "Voting for a presidential candidate because he is a Catholic or vot ing against him because he belongs to the Catholic faith is a sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition...
Freudian Slip. In Dallas, on a final exam, a Southern Methodist University coed misspelled a word but otherwise correctly identified the fifth precept of Buddhism: "Do not be unchased...