Word: persecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor, she had also paid off wiretapping Sergeant Stoker to the tune of $100 a week. Although they denied it, Sergeants Stoker and Jackson, along with six other cops, were shifted to the sticks. But that didn't stop the hue & cry. Last week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron...
John scorned Harry Truman as "too cowardly to send me to jail" and excoriated him as a persecutor "of a group of citizens against whom he has a malignant personal hatred...
...Christ is very straight and very narrow. It leads towards love for one's enemies, prayers for the persecutor, a preference for giving before receiving. It leads away from both contemporary nationalism and contemporary economics. The churches are not likely to take it, unless-which is not impossible-the ghastly confusion of world politics and economics should work in the churches the grace of a sudden conversion...
With Roman Catholics and Protestants the world over working together in a more friendly spirit than ever before, Spain has reversed the worldwide trend and resumed its ancient place as the world's most devout persecutor of heretics. Facts about Spain's 25,000 Protestants (Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal) vouched for by Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, American secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...forgotten that Trotsky himself was a terrorist. The world's dwindling community of civilized minds realized only that it had lost one of the supreme masters of prose of its time, wondered whether that brain had completed its last work-the biography of its implacable persecutor, Dictator Stalin. They wondered too what part the approaching completion of the biography might have played as a motive for the crime...