Word: cromwellian
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First, Russian revolution, in contradistinction to the German, Great French, Cromwellian and others, did not turn to external conquests, but remained a strictly Russian, internal affair. Second, since the middle of the nineteen thirties Communism, Atheism, and generally the destructive phase of the Revolution was over. All these became practically dead. Like many other revolutions, when their destructive phase is ended, Russian revolution revived and continued the living trends that existed before the revolution...
General Montgomery, that "vehement, formidable, austere, severe, accomplished Cromwellian figure," is now 1,500 miles beyond his starting point in Egypt. British and U.S. forces in central and northern Tunisia are many long sea-miles from home. The Germans must operate across the Mediterranean, and they are losing one-fourth to one-third of everything they try to transport. But they have nearly a quarter of a million Axis troops (the highest estimate yet) established on strong lines only 30 to 40 miles from their immediate bases...
...Cromwellian silver candle...
...Feng, omniscient housekeeper to an army, was one of the first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...
...Margot (Tennant) Asquith in the second volume of her auto-biography says: " I was tremendously impressed by his conversation and his clean Cromwellian face. He was different from the others and, although abominably dressed, had so much personality that I made up my mind...