Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Protestant attack on Smith after his nomination, opposition to him as a Catholic and opposition to him as a wet were inextricably entangled. People who were intensely hostile toward Catholicism were usually fervent drys. Since American traditions tended to inhibit direct assaults on religion, hostility to Smith's Catholicism was often expressed in denunciations of him as a servant of the Demon...
Protestant clergymen openly joined in the attack. New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, a leader of the nationwide Fundamentalist movement, denounced Smith as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress." Virginia's Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. thundered at Smith in sermons and pamphlets, organized a South-wide movement of drys dedicated to his defeat. Moderator Hugh K. Walker of the Presbyterian General Assembly called upon all Protestant churchmen to "fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith...
...emphasis is more and more on deterrence. Military planners figure that the best way to prevent war is to perfect and produce the kind of retaliatory weapons that could survive any attack and then go on to devastate the aggressor. That means that the U.S. will rely more and more on early warning systems, heavy and accurate firepower such as Strategic Air Command bombers and Atlases have today, and the maximum amount of invulnerability-such as the mobile Minuteman and the underwater Polaris will boast tomorrow...
From Cuba, Castro's newspaper, Revolution, called the letter "an attack on the people of Cuba" and Ike's comments "completely contrary to reality." In Chile, Student Federation President Fernandez called the U.S. statement a "valuable contribution to better understanding between the U.S. and Latin America...
There is also a widespread theory that Paul was an epileptic, and that the "vision" on the road to Damascus was simply an attack of the disease. The symptoms are typical-the light, the falling, the temporary blindness. Supporters of this hypothesis point to Paul's mysterious reference (II Corinthians 12:7-9) to his suffering from a "thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan," and this significantly follows a passage in which he tells of a man (usually taken to be himself) who "was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful...