Word: armageddons
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...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...
...hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon and so openly the words that may send to destruction the lives in their charge. They are earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...Manhattan, Thursday, July 30, 1914 dawned chill and damp. Europe had whelped the first World War and the morning sun, hidden from Wall Street behind a grey overcast, stippled with afternoon gold the dusty packs of Austrian infantrymen marching down to Servia and Armageddon. After the Stock Exchange had closed for the day, Manhattan's top-flight bankers gathered in the office of young (46) J. P. Morgan who 16 months before on the death of his late great father had become head of the most powerful banking house in the U. S. They gathered to discuss ways & means...