Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witnesses are most in their element when they are challenging the kingdom of Satan-that is, the rest of the world. They refuse to salute flags or to involve themselves in politics. Most of them refuse to serve in the armed forces (on the grounds that they are ministers). Such behavior keeps them constantly in hot water. Last year two of them were executed in rightist Greece; last month the sect was banned as subversive in Communist Poland (TIME, July 17). Their history in the U.S. has been punctuated by Supreme Court decisions, injunctions, jail terms and mob violence...
...particularly in the guided-missiles field ... Only day before yesterday, en route from Japan, I stopped at the Army's Detroit tank arsenal for a few hours and saw our proposed changes in tank design. These plans are splendid and show we have the know-how. Only one element is lacking-the money. However, if the funds were made available tomorrow, it would still be two years before new and improved tanks would be in production...
Capitalism, according to Demant, had a kind of theology all its own. "Capitalism was part of the whole movement known as liberalism ... It was this liberalism which dispensed with 'the sacred' as a real element in existence and gave the 'secular' all the religious valuations previously accorded to the divine realm...
...Vendettas. But Quirino bears little responsibility for at least one element in the Philippines' economic and political deterioration. His faults do not include the narrow nationalism which is the strongest legislative trend in the Philippine Congress. Economic nationalism has frightened off prospective American investors, and inspired in some American businessmen already in the Philippines a strong desire to head for home...
...documentary element is represented at intervals by excerpts from the records kept by Gilbert and Edward Winslow, two of the voyagers, and from the Mayflower's log, kept by one Captain Christopher Jones...