Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country was not yet preparing for Armageddon; it was merely trying to win a dirty, small-bore war in Korea. As of last week, before the President sent his message to Congress, even this effort was on a minor scale. For obvious reasons there was no thundering of a war machine: no thundering war machine existed...
...surely. If Russia did not want a world war now (as the Administration assumed), then it could only holler at increased U.S. mobilization; if Russia did indeed want war, it would never be at a loss for pretexts to start one. It was elementary prudence to get readier for Armageddon-or more Koreas...
...members of the sect called Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ's second coming is at hand. Some Witnesses believe the coming is so imminent that they put off marrying or having children until Armageddon signals the final act. Since all governments will soon be overthrown, the Witnesses do their best to ignore governments. They salute no flag, vote in no election, fight in no war. Their work is to bear witness to the coming Christ, and they do the job by doorbell ringing and by pamphlets, portable phonographs, sound trucks and streetcorner speaking. Like the early Christians...
What was this new thing the U.S. was in? World War III? Could Armageddon begin with so feeble a fanfare as the muffled Battle of Korea? Could the pushbutton war of the physicists start among the grass roofs of a land where men had hardly caught up with Galileo? Was this the place and was this the way in which Marx and Jefferson came to final grips...