Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disillusion & Despair. Meanwhile, secularism was on the rise. The Protestant reaction to this challenge, says Niebuhr, took two forms. "One section of the church, usually identified as 'fundamentalist,' has sought to preserve the Christian heritage by denying every achievement of science . . . and by wrapping the essential truths of the Christian faith in obscurantism. . . . The other section of the church, usually defined as 'liberal'. . . has been pathetically eager to relate itself creatively to the achievements of a secular age-so eager, in fact, that it . . . has been inclined to sacrifice every characteristic Christian insight if only...
...France's mild weather was reflected throughout Europe, filling many a breast with the clochard's peace of mind. And there were more tangible benefits as well. As last year's evil winds from Siberia had helped the Kremlin's cause by promoting misery and despair, so this year's Atlantic zephyrs favored European recovery. France's wheat crop promised to more than double last year's meager yield of 3.5 million tons. French hydroelectric power was more abundant than at any time since the end of the war. Almost everywhere coal rations...
...could see, for even a week, the intense strain they are under and the comfort they give in their work, you'd refrain from your blasts. How many other men work day and night, seven days a week, going out in all kinds of weather, to ease the despair and pain of the bereaved ? Any financial benefits would never recompense for the inconvenience, hard work, loss of family life, etc., these men incur. . . . A doctor, dentist, or any other professional man may refuse to go when called but the "undertaker" never takes that privilege...
...campaign had also begun, and the U.S. people were in the middle of it. They had not been put there by George Marshall alone. Their decision had been shaped, in part, by the pressure of events -starvation and despair in Europe, the cynical and ruthless policies of Joseph Stalin, the stubborn, mendacious methods of Molotov, the calculated rantings of Andrei Vishinsky...
...scarcely less critical step. "If Europe fails to recover, the peoples of these countries might be driven to the philosophy of despair-the philosophy which contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...