Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acts but of the Apostle Paul. And the authentic proof of the Spirit's presence is not in flames of fire or "speaking with tongues" but in the "fruits of the Spirit" as Paul defines them: "love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control." At Amsterdam, these "fruits" were abundantly evident within the World Council Assembly. Time and again in Christian history, there have been dramatic reenactments of Pentecost, with dubious enduring spiritual fruitage. It may well be the judgment of history that the Living Spirit was far more effectively at work in the less sensational...
Anyone with normal power of will can succeed as I did, I feel sure. In 1910, after an attack lasting several days, I determined to end the nuisance in future by bringing the diaphragm under direct control of the will. During future attacks, as I felt the recurrent spasms coming, I concentrated my will power to inhibit it. This entailed an exhausting struggle worse than hiccups, but it was successful . . . When I find I am hiccuping I simply stop, just as I would stop twiddling my watch chain, for instance...
...real problems facing the U.S., said Warren, went beyond party and beyond purely internal affairs. They could not be laid at the feet of "any one individual, any political party or any national administration." Most of them had been caused by "world forces beyond the control of the American people...
...join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part are deliberately caused for political purposes...
Hunt saw Beck finally locking horns with the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther "for control of American labor." If Beck won the fight, Hunt predicted, the U.S. might be in for something: "Beck abhors regimentation by government. He favors it by Beck. Beck's philosophy of labor relations envisages one big man in labor sitting down with one big man in industry to write the ticket...