Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interpretations of history have been truer to the Christian experience when they have said that God is battling the hosts of evil-Satan, or the 'principalities and powers,' or the antiChrist. The conflict is real. Wicked men defy God's purpose and His will is distorted and disobeyed. This has been the course of history, and it will be the same if men turn atomic energy to human destruction...
...What would you do in a conflict between Russia and Italy...
...historic institutions, whether political, economic or religious, which can survive a too uncritical devotion. . . . But even if our democracy were more perfect than it is ... devotion to democracy would still be false as a religion. It tempts us ... to give a false and idolatrous religious note to the conflict between democracy and communism, for instance...
Indonesian Republicans made their first contact with an American diplomatic representative yesterday, to take advantage of an earlier U.S. offer to arbitrate the conflict in the Dutch colonial possessions...
Like many another thinker, Poet John Milton was everlastingly confident that if truth and falsehood were to grapple in free and open encounter, "who ever knew Truth put to the worse?" Last week, 300 years further on in the unending conflict, the question whether truth and falsehood should meet in free and open encounter was still an issue...