Word: disturbing
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...social need is Gospel enough. For others, the words of Jesus are a better rationale: "As long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me." Yet secular involvement is an enterprise that brings many unfamiliar encounters; it can profoundly disturb the cleric who comes to it without a theology. For such men, contemporary theologians are seeking to develop a new understanding of the central relationships of human life, and in the process are redefining man, the world and the Multiform Presence that most of them are still willing to call...
...right of free speech may ask a federal court to strike down that law. In one case, a group of antiwar demonstrators in Texas had persuaded a federal court that it did indeed have the power to void a state law that banned "loud and vociferous language calculated to disturb...
...jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded in all the secrecy that would attend mass sodomy on the BMT at rush hour." On Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "He is so firmly fixed in my mind as a cautious, self-constricted man that I delight in actions that will disturb him." Concludes Galbraith: "The State Department has a sense of tradition. It believes that because we had a poor foreign policy under Truman and Eisenhower, we should have a poor one under Kennedy. No one can complain about that...
...body, since presumably the medical cause of death must be established before legal cause of death is considered. Yet last week, Mary Jo's parents, while agreeing that an inquest might be helpful, bitterly opposed an autopsy. Said Mrs. Joseph Kopechne: "No one is going to disturb my baby." Since Mary Jo is now buried near her home town of Plymouth, Pa., Dinis will have to persuade the Dukes County District Court to request the Luzerne County, Pa., court to order exhumation and an autopsy. By Pennsylvania law, autopsies can be performed, even against the wishes of "near relatives...
...clamoring for more of the rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their own economy insulated from foreign goods and capital. These new problems confuse and disturb the Japanese. Kiichi Miyazawa, a leading economist, sums up the mood: "For years, our people learned to cope with poverty. We do not yet know how to cope with plentifulness...