Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps a new recruit this week, armed with an old-fashioned philosophy and a newsman's restless mind. He is Max Ways, 54, longtime TIME senior editor (FOREIGN NEWS, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and foreign correspondent. U.S. foreign policy, writes Ways in Beyond Survival (Harper; $4), is headed for a dead end. It is probably doomed to lose ground to the Communists in the realms of politics, economics and military affairs. The fault lies not with the policymakers but with the American people, because the U.S. has no wide-ranging sense of purpose...
...rabbi-metallurgist prepared to lecture any time on ancient history. His specialty: the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress' 6,000-man force of Moslem cavalry. As the siege dragged on. the Boxers posted rewards for dead foreigners-50 taels ($35) for a male. 40 for a female, 30 for a child. Only three rewards were collected. Once, when a drunken Russian stumbled out of the compound and was shot, the competition to recover the body was so keen that eleven Chinese were picked off by snipers...
...murderers. But how have we done this? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born...
...they each had known with such shattering intimacy. If it is, however, one of the former concepts that is being generally worshipped, one ought at least to have the lucidity of speech and honesty of mind to admit that for most Harvard students, the God of their fathers is dead, regardless of What Else may now be around...