Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the small seaplane which dropped an incendiary bomb and started a forest fire in Oregon during 1942, the balloon had presumably been launched from an offshore submarine. But why? If it had carried men, where had they parachuted to earth? Since the balloon was designed to destroy itself in the air, had other earlier balloons sailed in across the Northwest undetected...
...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...
Experiment Perilous (RKO-Radio), a not very thrilling thriller, is the story of a demented Austrian aristocrat (Paul Lukas) who meets, marries and sophisticates a once-pastoral Vermont girl (Hedy Lamarr), then proceeds to poison the mind of her child against her and all but destroy her sanity and her life. He is foiled just in time by George Brent, who takes her back to Vermont, where she and her child rapidly recuperate...
...Adolf Hitler had said: "I promise you ... I could destroy the Church in a few years. It is hollow and false and rotten through and through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...
...Church awoke from their dream of peace. Rallying to the defense of Norwegian liberty, representatives of all branches and factions of the Church met to form the Christian Council for Joint Deliberation, and Eivind Berggrav cried: "God made us Norwegian. He will not put you in uniform and destroy your individuality. He will save you and liberate you. All Christians in this land are now facing in the same direction...