Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principles of religion, that is of the true religion, are or are not fact. Christ did not live on earth, establish a Church, instruct His disciples to "go forth and teach all nations" if He did not at the same time give them Truth to teach. If any church has that truth and can prove it, as can the Catholic Church, then it is not a question of whether or not the individual can or cannot believe it; for the truth never changes...
Washington had known it was coming, just as surely as it had known the storm was coming. Nevertheless, the news hit the nation with the jarring impact of a fear suddenly become fact. The comfortable feeling of U.S. monopoly was gone forever. The fact was too big and too brutally simple for quick digestion. What had been a threat for some time in the future, hard to visualize, easy to forget, had become a threat for today, to be lived with...
...spite of that indisputable fact there might be changes on the fringes of U.S. foreign policy. Some looked at Yugoslavia with a new, strategic perspective. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft renewed the argument that the U.S. take strategically placed Spain into the community of nations fighting Communism...
...mood and tempo. Military planners were suddenly faced with a whole new timetable of strategic planning (see below). Congressional economizers would have to look at the military budget with different eyes. The whole of the U.S. foreign policy would be subjected to the strain of the new, accomplished fact...
...Panic. By & large, the U.S. accepted the fact with grim concern, but with no panic. In Congress an irresponsible few talked nervously of the desirability of moving some Government agencies out of Washington. A few resurgent isolationists seized on it as a reason for scuttling all international programs from MAP to the Marshall Plan. But most reaction was sober, balanced (see PRESS) and a little sardonic. Men told each other wryly: "Better get out your old uniform." Others joked about getting a cabin in the hills. Many talked of a feeling of relief that the period of waiting was over...