Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upset Richard Nixon in his drive for the G.O.P. nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller must combine near-solid support of moderate-to-liberal Republicans with a strong showing in the polls. Last week the poll sters produced a mixed bag of returns. Louis Harris found Rocky lagging be hind both Democratic candidates and nearly tied with Nixon, but Gallup showed him leading both Nixon and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and just behind a surprisingly strong Senator Eugene McCarthy...
Founded by the Blessed Gerard in Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order has returned to a mission close to its original calling. The knights support a worldwide program of medical aid and refugee relief that extends to 42 countries. Of some 8,000 members, only 40 take the order's religious vows...
Among the Founding Fathers, James Madison was the man who cared most about building an impregnable wall between church and state in the First Amendment. As he observed, "the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one [religious] establishment may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever...
...their case was dismissed for lack of "standing." The gist of "standing," the Supreme Court once explained, is whether a plaintiff's personal stake in the suit is enough "to assure sharp prosecution of the issues." And a taxpayer's stake has been held too small to support a suit contending that a federal expenditure exceeded Congress' general powers...
...secular books may be religious in their treatment of such subjects as evolution, the three dissenters. Justices Douglas, Fortas and Black, all heatedly argued that the First Amendment's rule was being badly compromised. Said Black: "It requires no prophet to foresee that on the argument used to support this law others could be upheld providing for funds to buy property on which to erect religious school buildings, to pay the salaries of religious school teachers, and finally to pick up all the bills for religious schools. I still subscribe to the belief that tax-raised funds cannot constitutionally...