Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bitter Fight. So ended the emotion-laden fight over a local statute that had become the focus of the homosexual rights struggle nationwide. The battle to repudiate the county's lawmakers was involved. Bryant's Save Our Children, Inc. rallied some 3,000 volunteers, who rang bells, sent...
Ann Douglas is a 35-year-old American literature scholar with a provocative thesis. It is that U.S. mass consumer culture was born about 150 years ago in the pious alliance of middle-class women and the liberal Protestant clergy of the Northeast. Expansionist, masculine America was also getting started...
In fact, killings and bombings by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army have been cut drastically this year. That did not stop the militant Protestant followers of the Rev. Ian R.K. Paisley, the working-class rabble-rouser who is as contemptuous of what he calls the "bluestocking brigade...
The strike was called at midnight Monday. Next morning, Protestant thugs in Belfast turned out to terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead...
Alas for Paisley, his chances now seem dimmer than ever. On the first day of the strike, 30% of Protestant workers in Belfast stayed away from their jobs; by the third day, the absentees had dropped to 10%. Employers and trade union leaders agreed with Mason that a prolonged strike...