Word: antagonistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern times, Catholics and Protestants generally kept up a lively acquaintance with the Devil. The 16th century Catechism of St. Peter Canisius mentions the Devil more often than it mentions Christ. Martin Luther thought of Satan as a very personal antagonist-one real enough to hurl an inkpot at, as legend...
Garbo is very persuasive as a hard-boiled, sexless Comrade, and her mission is ultimately successful. But she loses her Marxist ways when she encounters an antagonist, Melvyn Douglas. Champagne and class struggle don't mix, and the result is marriage for Garbo and Douglas and a capitalistically-operated Russian restaurant for the old trio...
...popular vote from 35 to 37%, but had emerged with the same 46 seats. The Orthodox religious bloc had lost ground-from 16 to 14 seats. The pro-Soviet Mapam, formerly Israel's No. 2 party, dropped from 19 seats to 15. But B.G. had a new antagonist: into second place, increasing their seats from seven to 20, went the right-of-center General Zionists...
...Above all, their attack on Korea had cost Communism the flabbiness and indecision of the West. The West had been scared into action, convinced of the need for collective defense against an antagonist whose intent had now been proved beyond a doubt. Western armies were growing, defense production was burgeoning. The U.S. now packed more power in Korea alone than it possessed throughout the world before June...
Opening Broadside. With a flat, unemotional voice and sparse phrases that contrasted sharply with his antagonist's flow of words and orotund delivery, the wartime U.S. Chief of Staff coldly attacked both Douglas MacArthur's proposals and his conduct. Said Marshall...