Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Todd had written: "The Great Plain of China can be made a perfectly safe place in which to dwell and carry on agricultural pursuits." To prove it he was working 16 hours a day, seven days a week. An impassioned man in a blue shirt, he now rides daily back & forth along the bumpy dike tops, directing the work with his expressive hands (he speaks Chinese indifferently...
...under the guardianship of a world organization, there should not ultimately arise the United States of Europe, both of the East and of the West, which will unify this continent in a manner never known since the fall of the Roman Empire and within which all its people may dwell together in prosperity, in justice and in peace...
Today, a still hostile community of nations continues to dwell in nervous tension. Confused reports from press and radio have tended to reduce the meeting of the Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...
...Council's conclusion: "Beyond the resources that we can grasp is the infinite providence of God. This is God's world. It is He who has 'made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.'. . . Men may fail to repent of their evil and may thus bring suffering and disaster upon themselves. Yet Christians will stand firm in the faith that God's purposes will ultimately prevail. Knowing that with God all things are possible, let us act boldly and confidently for a world order based...
...experts might be too sophisticated to admit it, but in the public eye the Army team is a gang of super-dupermen who dwell high on the west banks of the Hudson, knock the sawdust out of tackling dummies all week, emerge from their caves on Saturday afternoon to scare women, children and mere mortal football foes. There is logic in the notion...