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...seeds of religious liberty were sown by the leaders of the Reformation, says Historian Stokes, though he credits neither Luther nor Calvin with any inclination to practice it themselves. It was rather the radical fringe of Protestantism-the Anabaptists, Mennonites and Quakers-whose protests against ecclesiastical institutionalism and state control of conscience began to lay the groundwork for religious liberty as it is known today. Though the Puritans came to the New World in search of religious freedom, they were not interested in tolerance for anyone else. Typical of 17th Century New England, says Stokes, is a couplet found...
...General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...disease made her almost indifferent to her personal safety. When the guerrillas discovered a freshly sown minefield in the area where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila, they picked Joey to get the information through. They taped the map to her back, told her to make her last confession, and sent her off. For 56 miles Joey trudged through Jap encampments and check points. Several times she was stopped, dismissed after a perfunctory search. She delivered the map safely...
Niemöller's reason: "Hundreds of thousands yield under constant pressure to the temptation to wash their hands of guilt by any conceivable lie or distortion . . . and the newly sown seed of hatred has grown rapidly...
...Torrents of Evening. Edie spends her mornings in a pink satin double bed in her Beverly Hills home, gathering her column over two telephones. Out of the ripe grainfield sown by studio executives, wives, movie stars and pressagents, she may reap 30 or so printable bits. She never goes to studios or press parties, because "they bore the you-know-what out of me." But at night Edie goes everywhere with one of her bewilderingly large number of escorts, considers three parties or as many nightclubs a routine evening. Her nimble tongue can hold its own with Hollywood...