Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years a small band of Doukhobors in Hilliers, on Vancouver Island, have struggled to establish a "Spiritual Community of Christ." It was started by Michael ("The Archangel") Verigin, who decided that other "Douks" were losing sight of original Doukhobor tenets and becoming worldly and materialistic. Unlike other British Columbia Doukhobors, the new community stressed the old precepts of non-violence and communal sharing of all property, including husbands & wives. Its ruling elders decreed that until the colony was economically self-sufficient, no children should be born to any member...
When the Western powers occupied Germany, they tried to re-establish a democratic press by the paradoxical method of rigid controls. The U.S. Military Government, like the British and French, carefully screened all applicants, barred former Nazis, and gradually licensed a small number (57) of papers in its zone. The licensees were told they would be closed down if they advocated anti-democratic ideas...
Where it is right, establish it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Him who died and rose again, and ever liveth to make intercession for us, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord...
Managerial personnel, Rakosi said, "do not have sufficient determination to create the necessary discipline with iron hands . . . They try to avoid the thankless duty of disciplining their workers and instead seek to establish a sort of 'good fellow' spirit by which they ensure their own popularity." From now on, he concluded, "managers and foremen who tolerate bad work, bad discipline and laziness . . . will be relentlessly eliminated...
Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state. But such a retreat was plainly under...