Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent and ran wild. The passion for rhetoric came to a boil; the Fire-Eater went to Washington (and has never left it); Jehovah became a tribal God and the South His last great bulwark; the Civil War was Armageddon...
...death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash with grim reality. What we are swiftly approaching-are now actually in-is a now era in national and world affairs. This is a revolutionary period-almost a preview of Armageddon...
...battle when it attacked President Conant (who had urged lifting the arms embargo), Bishop Manning of New York, and President Seymour of Yale, accusing them of "earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway to Armageddon...
...Persecution of Witnesses merely strengthens them in their belief that they are battling the hosts of Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not wait to be thrown to the lions; they walk into the lions' den, and bat its occupants over the head with the complete works of Judge Rutherford...
...free Britons are fast learning what an appallingly short way ?300 millions go today in even the present "phony" (therefore "cheap") stage of World War II. Years ago the Nazis quit issuing Treasury figures, blindfolded the German people to what they were having to pay to get ready for Armageddon. Adolf Hitler boasted, when he entered conquered Poland, that this cost was 90 billion marks. He seemed to think that cheap. Economists shuddered...