Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials of the National Council of Churches and two of its member denominations have asked church leaders to organize community anti-Soap action groups in 174 cities. The U.S. Catholic Conference considers the show unfit for prime time, when 18 million youngsters are in the potential audience, and is lobbying to have it scheduled at a later evening hour. A militant "no Soap" coalition formed by the Southern Baptists and nine other religious and civic organizations has been pressuring local stations and sponsors to boycott the program. As of last week, 17 of ABC's outlets...
...Harvard 21, Columbia 7 at Baker "boy-does-it-need-a-paint-job" Field here Saturday afternoon, and if ever a turf was unfit for football, this...
Since the New York Times two months ago announced that movie ads it deemed unfit to print would be restricted to 1-in., unillustrated notices of time and place, the urge to purge has spread. The Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Diego Union, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, and various lesser papers have either banned sex-film display ads outright or placed so many restrictions on them that advertisers have taken their trade elsewhere...
...bomb spies are transferred from the death house at Sing Sing to a public stage in Times Square for their execution. Word began circulating that several publishers had considered the manuscript and decided not to risk legal repercussions. The question naturally arose: What in this obstreperous age could be unfit to print...
...whose charges had won an unprecedented four straight Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League titles (1971-1974), as well as four District One baseball championships (1968, 1971, 1973 and 1974), and who had brought those four district champion teams to Omaha, Nebraska for the College World Series, was now suddenly deemed unfit to run the same Harvard diamond show...