Word: contentedness
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The impression that Griffin received from the "Harvard Coop book" was that Russia is a "sort of paradise of happy, contented people, better off in several ways than any other people in the world." Griffin further quoted the Hymarx as calling American newspapers "the prostituted vehicles of capitalism."
Blanshard contented himself with giving an outline of his book in which he stated "The elaborate trappings and system of power of the Roman Catholic Church are far from the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth." He also pointed out that Catholics were coerced into being married by priests and into...
Last week, as it prepared to celebrate Christmas, America was not much more than a scattering of houses along a mile of muddy road-the original river town had long since disappeared and its traces had been erased by plowing. America's farms were small; its citizens tilled a...
Signs of Maturity. Protected by the 100-mile-wide Strait of Formosa, separating them from the Communists on the mainland, the Nationalists seem to have a good chance of successfully defending their island redoubt against an assault-providing Formosa's native population does not rise against them. While General...
The only people in Indonesia who were really contented were the soldiers of the Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel...