Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosecution and police stated their case in the pretrial hearing, the key man was Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, 38. Jowly, confident Lonsdale arrived in London only a few months ago bearing a Canadian passport and birth certificate. As on two prior visits, he rented a small flat at a residential hotel called the White House, styling himself a company director in the hotel register. He had interests in a small London firm, Allo Security Products, makers of remote-control locking mechanisms still under preproduction testing...
Appearing before the Senate Commerce Committee prior to his confirmation as chairman of the FCC, Chicago Lawyer Newton N. Minow, 35, enunciated a television creed to build a dream on: "I will work toward more wide-open spaces between the westerns and more public affairs instead of private eyes...
...demanding it be over-ruled. Such hysterical reactions to Rockwell are silly. And quite apart from the publicity he gets from this opposition, publicity which his kind of movement thrives on, muzzling the Nazi leader is a violation of his constitutional right to free speech. Suppression of speech by prior restraint is an evil, and putting up with people like Rockwell is the price we pay for having defenses against...
...Prior lays heavy emphasis on this intervention of Christ into the historical world as the key to Christianity truth and to belief in it. "For either" he reasons, "Christ was far more than a good man or else he was a deceiver." He does not demand dogmatic acceptance of his listeners. He challenges them: "are you honest inquirers...
This restrained, reasoned challenge of Prior's conversations and lectures commands remarkable attention, for his sharp angular features and high, yet ever controlled voice communicate the message in a direct, compelling fashion that even those in complete disagreement must respect. You won't find a 300-voice choir or mass conversions at his lectures in Agassiz this week, but you will encounter an evangelism that is forthright and intellectually honest, rare attractions in the circus world of American evangelism...