Word: armageddon
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...magnitude of the convoys and rubbed their eyes over the spy mission of tall Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, as they saw the first pictures of the American flag on African soil, they knew that at last, after a year of humiliation, they were active and aggressive participants at Armageddon. In the tank and plane factories, in the ammunition plants and the shipyards, there was good reason to work harder than ever...
Sober satisfaction is what most citizens felt with their Congress-which seemed to have been spiritually reborn. None were more pleased than most of the adventuresome 2,500,000 youngsters now eligible for Armageddon. Many (one estimate: 400,000) already were in the armed forces. Many more this week were storming recruiting centers to enlist, inspired more by knowing this is a young man's war than fearing the draft...
...from the morning stars, they will pour out such a flood of war machines as no man has ever imagined. The onetime auto industry will employ a million men & women, twice as many as it ever did, will make a billion dollars' worth of armaments a month. If Armageddon is to be decided in Detroit, Armageddon...
...converted themselves to war. The whole automobile industry has gone to war. Detroit-and not only its Henry Fords but its Bud Goodmans and Frank Morisettes and Eddie Hunts and Roscoe Smiths-had gone to war. The whole U.S. nation was going to roll up its sleeves and fix Armageddon...
...Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released on appeal. The Witnesses got into trouble before War II for refusing to salute the U.S. flag. They believe that the Biblical prophecies control world happenings, Armageddon is drawing near, and the Prophets alone will live forever. Rutherford died in a Spanish mansion he had prepared for King David, Gideon, Samson, other Biblical luminaries. He landscaped it with palm and olive trees "so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come...