Word: pacifistically
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...Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament made militarylike preparations for the pacifist pilgrimage. Marchers got nine pages of advance instructions (e.g., "Don't bring very young children or dogs," "Don't wear anything that will distract the attention of the would from our great issues"). Delegations from towns and foreign countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare...
More than half an hour before the sentencing, the courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...
...Testament names to almost every one of his characters), and it is peopled with stereotypes (the gruff-but-kindly sheriff the shrewd-but-kindly businessman, and even the wicked-and-abandoned-but-kindly prostitute. The structure is as simple and as unenticing: hostile, alienated, confused James Dean battles a pacifist, puritanical brother for the blessing of the patriarchal father (Raymond Massey) and the affections of the brother's girl (Julie Harris). It's a wonder the film has any merit...
Their first trouble came from residents of the local town of Dunoon, who were looking forward to a boost to business from free-spending U.S. sailors. One night a band of about 16 Scots seized the pacifist ringleader, Lawrence Otter, 22, snipped off his four-inch beard and cut his boats adrift. "We don't like you foreigners coming in here causing trouble," they said...
...Evangelical Church, the last important institution in Germany that the Communists have not succeeded in dividing between "imperialist West" and "peace-loving East." Year after year, the Red regime chipped away at Protestant prerogatives, persecuted pastors, and drove thousands of others into flight to the West. They played on pacifist tendencies wherever they showed themselves and vilified outspoken anti-Communists as atom-happy militarists...