Word: exultations
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...past year the British working classes have grown increasingly aware that they were getting two negatives where they wanted two affirmatives. Last week they had good reason to exult. To one demand (the other is a second front) the British Home Secretary, Laborite Herbert Morrison, finally said "Yes," permitting the resurrection of the British Communist newspaper, the Daily Worker. The decision was proof that labor could still control its leaders by agitation...
...Allied situation in the Far East being what it is--decidedly critical--Herr Goebbels must do plenty of laughing when American papers, under banner spreads, exult over each tiny counterstab by MacArthur or the Dutch fleet. Not so long ago, Goebbels was paying French newspapermen lucratively for the same type of publicity that the American press is now providing free of charge. His point was, on the eve of their conquest, to lull the French public into the false security of a rumored German conflict with Russia...
...Madrid-University City, Boadilla del Monte, the Arganda Bridge, Guadalajara where they routed Mussolini's troops. It is written in great chunks in which the rabble armies struggle to advance a mile, are thrown back ten, somehow hold on; in which their little human components hope, despair, suffer, exult, sometimes betray, always fight to stay alive, to kill before they are killed...
...waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand of a Roman Pope is lifted for the first time after several decades to bless [this place] as a mark of peace; Italy looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace, seem also to exult as if happy to see the dawn of new times. . . . We pray to God and the Vir gin Mother to extend their...
...Church; 400 from the M. E. Church South, which had seceded over slavery in 1844; 10° from the Methodist Protestant Church, which had split off in 1828. In the last three years the three churches successively ratified a plan of union. The Uniting Conference met to proclaim and exult in the merger, the biggest in Protestant history, and to deal with the many and various problems of overlapping administration. The three merging churches have between them 65 bishops, some 25,000 ministers, about 43,000 churches, 2,900 schools and colleges, many a hospital and social-service agency, several...