Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India has become the acid test of our fitness to survive. To fail here will be to fail everywhere. To succeed here will be to prove the truth of the President's words: #We of the United Nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man's heritage." FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN...
Speaking as "individual Christians," the 87 signatories declared: "We believe we express the mind and conscience of an overwhelming majority, not only of American Christians but also of that larger community of Christians which transcends national lines and, even in nations at war, remains unbroken. We do not fail to remember that we are united with our foes by a common humanity and by our common need of divine grace. We renounce hatred and vengeance. . . . That our nation is by no means guiltless of the sins of omission and commission which have made this war, we penitently acknowledge...
...Today the struggle of man's spirit is against new and curious shackles...a seven days' wonder, a new child of tyranny-a political religion in which the leader of the state becomes, himself, an object of worship and reverence. This Nazi freak must fail, if only because men are not clods, because the spirit does live...
...persistently fail to abide by the rules are answerable to House authorities. Under this new system, not only has enforcement of the regulations become easier and more efficient, but offenders have decreased in number, giving considerable advantages over the old system of only two students on night patrol for the whole House...
...burst of unmilitary optimism. They made it with the advice and consent of their military advisers, men who must then have been aware of the facts which were still being cited last week to prove that a second front in 1942 will certainly be difficult, that it may fail, and that it may even be impossible...