Word: armageddons
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...Some 30,000 Jehovah's Witnesses descended on New York City for a five-day Triumphant Kingdom Assembly, the fifth of eleven Witness assemblies that will take place throughout the world this year, heard the imminence of Armageddon preached in flower-decked Yankee Stadium, spent their spare time making door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw...
...sober fact the pregnancy may express hostility on the part of either husband or wife, increase the self-esteem of either, or be a mere coincidence . . . For the woman who has been trained to regard men as beasts, sexual intercourse as vile, and childbirth as a sort of vaginal Armageddon, the pregnancy may be a massing together of terrors...
...problems. One by one, Flanders twanged off the names of world trouble spots: Korea, Indo-China, sick France and dissension-torn Italy, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with its spreading infection of Communism. "In very truth," said Flanders, "the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon. Now is a crisis in the agelong warfare between God and the Devil for the souls of men. In this battle of the agelong war, what is the part played by the junior Senator from Wisconsin? He dons his war paint. He goes into his war dance. He emits...
...view ranged from gloomy and disturbing scenes of death to bright and happy still-lifes. Cannabin, done in thickly applied tropical reds and blue-greens, showed flies feeding on the carcass of a dog. Minotaur set such modern forms as radar equipment and airplane parts in a desolate, post-Armageddon landscape. On the other hand, Still-Life with Pear was as cheerful and peaceful as a morning in spring, and Made in U.S.A. expressed the hustling vitality of a city waterfront...
...Negroes into remote corners of the world ("areas unsuitable for white settlement, anyway") and either disarming or fighting Europe's "barbarians," i.e., Communists, to a finish. Capitalism, according to Mosley, will collapse of its own weight during the next five years. Then the stage will be clear for Armageddon. "God help us and mankind," cried Sir Oswald, "if we fail to prove the strongest." A voice from the audience asked, "How do we feel about monarchy...