Word: unclean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will no longer be broadcast. A mutton shortage loomed as a result of the Ayatullah's ban on meat imported from Australia and New Zealand. Because the importers could not prove that the sheep had been slaughtered according to Muslim standards, he declared the meat to be "unclean and forbidden...
...adopted the idea that the general run of mankind existed merely to be exploited, through robbery, violence and treachery. In 1420 a cult of Bohemians called the Adamites came to regard themselves, like the Manson gang, as avenging angels. They set about making holy war to cut down the unclean; blood, they said, must flood the world to the height of a horse's head. They were finally exterminated after committing uncounted murders. In 1535 an army of Anabaptists under Jan Bockelson proclaimed its intention "to kill all monks and priests and all rulers that there...
...regardless of class; college graduates who are not doing well (earning less than $20,000 a year) emphasize their degrees when claiming status identification; to the proudest group belong those who got rich without much formal education; the welfare and poverty class distinguishes between physically and morally clean and unclean; at all levels of society the most frequently mentioned cause of downward mobility is alcoholism; Americans tend to place themselves in the highest class they can defend on the basis of their material achievements. Concludes one suburbanite: "You can see someone in a Cadillac, and that only tells you what...
...steeped in symbolic rituals. A student's guru is more than his teacher--he is a paternalistic spiritual guide. In the student's initiation ceremony, a string is tied around his wrist to indicate devotion to his guru. In addition, the soles of one's feet are considered unclean; it is forbidden to touch instruments with them. Fifteen hours of practice each day is not considered too rigorous...
...French Cabinet and once handed him $500,000 to distribute among fellow members of the Chamber. Allen lavished secret funds on Saudi Arabia, including money that may have gone for the virgins and small boys King Saud fancied. Said one former agent: "He was never against the unclean side of intelligence, so long as he could convince himself, as he usually could, that it was being done for a cause...