Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have peace-if the world wants peace, there are compelling reasons why China's present effort must succeed. This depends in a large measure on actions of other nations. If China is ignored, or if there is scheming to thwart her present aspirations, her effort will fail...
...conclusion: "Beyond the resources that we can grasp is the infinite providence of God. This is God's world. It is He who has 'made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.'. . . Men may fail to repent of their evil and may thus bring suffering and disaster upon themselves. Yet Christians will stand firm in the faith that God's purposes will ultimately prevail. Knowing that with God all things are possible, let us act boldly and confidently for a world order based on brotherhood, freedom...
...Power. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde has never suffered from pallid faith in his own star. "God is with me," he said in public last September, "and those God helps along never fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen...
...taking degrees because, when a schoolboy, I was so bad at passing examinations. In fact, one might almost say that no one ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees. From this a superficial thinker might argue that the way to get the most degrees is to fail in the most examinations." But there was a more "edifying conclusion" to be drawn...
Gaitered Ghost. One by one, Lewis' fellow excursionists fail to find Heaven to their liking. Most outspoken: the liberal theologian, a fat, gaitered ghost with a cultured voice and "a bright clerical smile," who clings to his benign skepticism and open mind even in the forefields of Heaven. An old orthodox friend says to him: "We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other facthood...