Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Britain and France were not dealing honestly with the U.S.S.R. He noted contemptuously that: "My friends do not agree. They still think that when commencing the negotiations on a pact for mutual assistance with the U.S.S.R., the British and French Governments had serious intentions to create a powerful barrier against aggression in Europe...
...wonder with the cape and the muleta, standing immovable, close to the bull, forcing the bull to charge between him and the barrier-a very dangerous trick. Because of his daring the bulls have ripped his skintight pants in every fight so far, have often tossed him in the air though never gored him. (He thriftily rents his suits for $50 for each performance instead of buying them for $600.) His greatest flaw: he was not clean or quick enough at the kill...
...assimilation, of growing alike. . . . My longing is not yet that we should be united with other churches in this country, but that we should grow to full communion with them. . . . Full communion between churches means not that they are identical in all ways, but that there is no barrier to exchange of their ministers and ministries. Every church's ministry is effective as a means by which the life of Christ reaches His people. Every church's ministry is defective because it is prevented from operating in all the folds of His flock...
...would widen out. From it, the British would be able to slam the gates of Suez on any aggressor. They could rake an enemy in the Persian oilfields with rockets launched in Kenya or Khartoum. No threat to a peaceful Soviet Union, the African girdle might be a potent barrier to Russian expansion across the Middle East toward India...
...When Knighthood Was in Flower; 1901-Winston Churchill's* The Crisis; 1902-Owen Wister's The Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco...