Word: demonium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy, since the men are human and lustful, statesmen argue that there is no surplus land available for the 13,000,000 weird newcomers. Commerce and communica- tions collapse, councils are called, panic reigns. Throughout the nations...
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