Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fard Muhammad, who revealed himself to be "Allah on earth"-on earth, that is, just long enough to pick the "messenger" for his black-supremacy doctrine. Messenger Elijah dropped his "slave-master name" of Poole, took up the spiritual surname Muhammad (lacking religious surnames, his ministers just use "X"). He founded Temple No. i in 1931, but soon ran into difficulties...
...ascetic little man, Elijah sternly demands that his followers give up tobacco, dope and alcohol, bathe often, pray toward Mecca five times a day, even if it means falling upon their knees in the streets. Moslem women should dress modestly, use no lipstick, never allow themselves to be alone in a room with any man except their husbands. Attacking all forms of dependence upon whites, Elijah set up a Moslem restaurant, cleaning business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought...
...four communes assigned to reap grain left nearly 300 tons of wheat to waste in the fields. Inevitably, too. the peasants lost interest in selling their crops; according to the Peking People's Daily, the amount of produce kept by China's peasants for their own use jumped 146% last year...
...fundamental tenets of Methodism is the condemnation of the use of spirits. Committed by conscience to this proposition, would you, in a position of public trust, respect the right of others to consume such beverages? Could Government funds be used for this purpose, as in official cocktail parties? Would liquor industries be shut down? . . . Would you strive to make [present state anti-liquor] laws federal, thus forcing your own religious views on all your fellow citizens...
...band thumped the sendoff, and while Jerm traveled aboard a slow-moving Jeep, young girls carried candles, Jerm's mother brought his saffron robe, an uncle (his father is dead) carried the skull-shaped, cast-iron begging bowl, and his wife followed with the simple bedding he would use during his seclusion...