Word: sect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of Steven Bryant, who was found shot dead in his van in Los Angeles last May, might have slipped into oblivion were it not for the victim's reputation. Bryant, 33, was widely known as a longtime Hare Krishna who had turned against the sect in recent years. A bit of a crank, he bounced between West Virginia and California telling lawmen that the ever chanting, saffron- robed, pig-tailed, panhandling sect had turned corrupt...
...Like any other country, we expel illegal aliens." So said Yitzhak Agassi, an official in Israel's Interior Ministry, of the ministry's plan to kick out 46 American-born members of the Black Hebrew sect for overstaying their visas...
...with disfavor on attempts by the state to cater to one particular religion. "There is and can be no doubt," the Justices said, "that the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma." Ironically, the reasoning was used to strike down an Arkansas statute patterned after the Tennessee law that snared Science Teacher Scopes...
...place to rock. Man Ray has great music and even go-go dancers but the dance floor istoo crowded. Or if you want to rock closer tohome, try Jonathan Swift's (JFK street) fora melange of live bands. It's crowded, hot andvery loud, but there's a sect of Harvard studentswho swear...
...have reflected on your idea of brilliance. By becoming an obscene warped but unique and genuine caricature of the left, I expect you will be able to swing a few more centrists to your crude rightist sect...socialists, too, will run to the center or even further in the shadow of your pseudo-Stalinism...