Word: shibboleths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public opinion to the danger that threatens religious liberty as guaranteed by the separation of church and state . . . In a recent public pronouncement issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference and signed by American cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the hierarchy brands the separation of church and state a 'shibboleth of doctrinaire secularists' and serves notice that it intends 'peaceably, patiently and perseveringly' to effect a radical change in this American tradition and in the law which supports...
...could skid up to high F on the other, so that he could spread the chords. His music was carefully arranged except for solos. The Duke says "being able to repeat your solo is to me a virtue," a clear violation of the jazz fancier's shibboleth that only the improvised is inspired...
...have the faith to transfer the policing of the world from unilateral power politics to the United Nations under a system of world law, our political "leaders" are re-enacting the role of Samson in the temple of the Philistines by perpetuating the insane anarchy of war, muttering the shibboleth of "national sovereignty...
...Gilead said unto him, "Art thou an Ephraimite?" If he said, "Nay" then they said unto him, "Say now shibboleth," and he said "Sibboleth" for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan.-Judges...
...unconditional surrender" become an Allied shibboleth which may prolong the war? London's informed, forthright Sunday Observer raised the question, subjected the doctrine's European implications to penetrating analysis. Condensed, the Observer's argument runs...