Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic policies and has since deliberately led the country toward war in order to save his political skin. He believes that the defense program is being tragically bungled, with an inefficiency fairly inviting graft and waste. He thinks the President is struggling desperately in quicksand of his own creation. He thinks the President's policies have nearly wrecked the domestic capitalistic system...
Earliest triumphs, and high creation's favorites...
...theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
...same forces that spewed up the Rocky Mountains, millions of years ago, turned edgewise a huge ledge of red sandstone, 15 miles from Denver. At right angles to the rock, on the rising hillside, up-jut two crags, Creation Rock and Ship Rock. In this enclosure a whisper sounds clearly, and anything from one fiddle to a full band sends lush tones rolling upward...
...such acts historians blame the creation of the Triple Entente, giving Germany enemies on both sides. Yet history has shown that a deeper, more instinctive fear of the Germans had led Europe always to oppose them. Under the Kaiser, Germany once more swelled with power and pride; once more she threatened to burst her boundaries. Under Wilhelm, Germany built a mighty Navy to threaten Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente...