Word: swine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every indication that Dominici is involved, but that he could not have committed the murders alone." Nevertheless, early this week the jury reached its conclusion: guilty. The old peasant was sentenced to die on the guillotine, though the sentence would probably be commuted to life imprisonment. "My sons-what swine!" snarled the old man as he was led away...
...They're friendly." ¶ "They don't call us 'German swine' anymore." ¶ "They're polite on streets and make way for ladies much quicker than German men." ¶ "They're not really soldiers at all-in the German sense of the word...
...Moore in the A.M.A. Journal: "This virus disease spread in the country at wildfire rate . . . through the feeding of raw garbage. [It] not only hit the large herds of the garbage-feeders but, because of its infectiousness, quarantines were called for that [also] stopped the shipping of grain-fed swine out of many areas. That affected the farmer's pocketbook. Without hesitation, the farmers turned on the legislators, and most . . . responded with a speed and unanimity . . . seldom witnessed." Laws forbidding the feeding of uncooked garbage to hogs are now on the statute books of 43 states...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
...bright light of freedom in 17th century Amsterdam, the little band of Jews from Spain and Portugal still felt afraid and hunted. They were marranos (meaning "swine" or "accursed"), victims of forcible baptism as Christians under the terror of the Inquisition; now that they could practice Judaism openly in their new home, they did so with ferocious tenacity. When in 1656 a young scholar among them dared to range his brilliant mind beyond the confines of the faith-he doubted the existence of angels, the incorporeality of God and the soul's immortality, later recognized Jesus as a bearer...