Word: reck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here I am, solemnly proposing a re form to our country. If then, out of reck lessness, the French people opposed it, what kind of man would I be if with out delay I did not draw the consequences of such a deep fissure...
...that men of the cloth are getting more pay and prefer it that way; they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count...
...week. It was the greatest experience I've ever had." > Chicago's Donald P. Moore, 35, was a top-of-his-class (Illinois, '56) candidate for Wall Street, but chose to work for local indigents instead. In 1957 he took on Emil Reck, a feeble-minded murder defendant serving 99 years on the basis of a coerced confession. Moore spent four no-fee years fighting to a Supreme Court victory that freed Reck. In 1961 he won another Supreme Court decision permitting a Chicago Negro family to sue in federal court for unlawful police invasion of their...