Word: pricklier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction could hardly have been pricklier had Mike Pearson suggested a red porcupine on a bed of pine needles. The war veterans almost booed him from the hall, and throughout the land other flag-waving Canadians raised a howl. Editorial cartoonists had a field day; a flag-toting Pearson dodging the shot and shell of protest; Pearson with a flag in one hand, a gun in the other, threatening John Q. Canada. Vowed Newfoundland's Premier: "We will continue to fly the Union Jack if we are the last place in Canada to do it." In angry letters...
...duty-bound to remind members that they are sinners. In place of tranquilizing theology he gave sermons on "Who Owns Your Soul?" ("Is it an insurance company, a bank, a labor union or an industry?"), on "The Church in Our World" ("It neither disturbs nor comforts"), and on the pricklier passages of the Sermon on the Mount. "My contention," he says, "is that the Gospel applies not to 1st century man but to 20th century...