Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught by surprise when 300,000 Germans held an anti-Communist demonstration in Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), Russian agents whistled up a Communist rally of 100,000 Germans to answer the challenge. Under these circumstances negotiations were impossible. The real danger was that Russia had started a fire which she might...
Operating through a few unions which they control (e.g., fire brigades, electrical workers, bakers & confectioners, vehicle builders, foundry workers), the Commies tried first to defeat a motion condemning unofficial strikes. Pale, shock-haired Communist Abe Cohen of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers leaped to the rostrum and attacked the...
How long will the World Council abide? Will it ever turn the churches into The Church? Can it meet the challenge of a secular century?
* One contrast with U.N. was startling. In two years, Lake Success has had no noticeable loss of headphones; after the first day of the World Council, 30 sets were missing - 25 of which were later returned. younger churches of Asia and Africa than did earlier ecumenical conferences. Handsome, flashing-eyed...
"A highly specialized animal ... is practically in equilibrium with all phases of his environment... Is something similar, perhaps, happening to the scientist? Is the specialist, in the confines of his narrow discipline, failing to accept the challenge of unfamiliar territory, to risk the uncertainties and the tensions of coupling and...