Word: plurals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise the children according to the law, i.e., teach them that polygamy is wrong in the eyes of the state. Thus the state is trying-without having to resort to lengthy and costly court action-to persuade the Blacks and their like-minded neighbors to give up plural marriage. But Vera Black would not be persuaded. In a steady voice, she read a statement to the officials: "Ours is a nation of equal rights before the law. Why should I be required to sign . . . any oath of any kind in order to keep the children I have honorably borne unless...
...more than 65 years since aged Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, publicly declared that "my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The Mormons have condemned plural marriage ever since, and do not recognize the "Fundamentalists" as Mormons...
...believe as a people that polygamy is a divine institution. People live this way in heaven . . . Woodruff's manifesto of 1890 was not a revelation of God. It was a submission to expediency . . . Without plural marriage, men cannot become Gods...
...write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets to each other," he told the assembled academicians. "I express the wish that the academy at that time protect the persons suspected of individualism. I would like to think that our doors would open for the singular persecuted by the plural...
...instructor in journalism at a nearby girls' school in Newton, I was naturally interested in the use of the word "world" by Publisher Fox. As a former reporter for the Post, I felt impelled to write him a letter asking his authority for the plural verb with his singular noun...