Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leslie Weatherhead's statement [May 18] that death, like birth, need not be left to God, seems to overlook the fact that God never issued a commandment, ''Thou shalt not assist at birth." I'm scurrying now to my Old Testament to reread the commandment I once misread-you know, the one that goes, "Thou shalt not kill, without the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee...
...faith at the four-week-old Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva. Said the President: "There has not been any detectable progress that to my mind would justify the holding of a summit meeting." He added that he would expect the foreign ministers to produce an agreed statement so that "we could see where we are apart on issues, whether we could narrow these gaps, and whether we could define the areas where it would be worthwhile for us to confer ... a decent working paper...
...supporters who gathered on the grassy lawn to cheer him. Fulfilling a campaign pledge, he won release from custody of eight leaders of his party's extremist wing. On emerging from Changi prison, where they had been held since the 1956 riots, the eight signed a joint statement pledging "the attainment of party aims and objectives through constitutional process...
...believe a member of the Socialist Party should be permitted to teach citizenship courses in public high schools: 102 agree with the above statement; 202 disagree with the above statement...
...believe any specific religious faith or the denial of religious faith should be discussed in the public schools: 126 agree with the above statement; 172 disagree with the above statement...