Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woods south of Prague, an empty bottle of cheap wine at his feet. On an island in the Vltava River, more than 3,000 people imprisoned and tortured when the Communists first came to power met to praise Dubček and unfurl a white banner that read: "Never let it happen again...
...demanded that commitment. One argument against trying to build Christianity on moral action alone is that Jesus' teachings, unlike those of, say, Confucius, make sense only when understood as counsels of perfection in obedience to God rather than as workable guidelines of behavior. The Rev. David H. C. Read, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, points out that in facing many problems of life the behavior of the Christian and the humanist might well be identical. Bertrand Russell and the Archbishop of Canterbury, for example, could equably serve on the same committee to improve housing...
Last Tuesday the Cleveland Press car ried on its masthead the slogan: "Ohio's largest daily newspaper."On Wednesday it read instead: Ohio's largest evening newspaper. "In the slight shift of words lay a significant story. For the first time in nine years, the circulation of the morning Cleveland Plain Dealer had surpassed that of the afternoon Press...
...young Filipino mother, Antonia Thomas, accused of murdering her six-day-old infant by feeding it some caustic substance from a baby bottle. She had already been found guilty in the killing once, but a mistrial had been declared. Between the trials, Defense Lawyer Dudley Gray had read in TIME (Dec. 29) about Thomas Kidwell, an accused wife killer who was shown to a jury on video tape; under a so-called truth drug, he had relived the apparent fact that his wife had shot him first. As a result, the charge against him was reduced from first-degree murder...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...