Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Chinese leaders also felt that U.S. policy was driving China into Russia's arms. Said Vice President Dr. Sun Fo, son of the late great Sun Yatsen, in an interview last week: "The results of Wedemeyer's report. . . will tell China whether it would be better for her to side with the U.S. or Russia." Premier Chang Chun strongly implied that China would side with Russia in demanding a hard peace for Japan...
...months, Salabarria had fretted over a rival who he felt threatened his power in the department-Emilio Tro, young (29), able police major who fought in the Spanish Civil War (on the Loyalist side) and with the U.S. Army in Europe and the Pacific.† Tro, among other things, had accused Salabarria and his supporters of black market operations. That rankled. For the unsolved murder of one of his men a fortnight ago, Salabarria blamed Tro. It also gave him the excuse he needed. Last week, with a warrant for the arrest of Tro and two friends, Salabarria got together...
...Most of the early writing on grace was done by Saint Paul and Saint Augustine.* Both had special reason to know what they were talking about. Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage. Each felt himself to have been saved by God through no merit or initiative of his own, indeed almost against his will. This, they said, was the grace of God: a divine gift bestowed not on the worthy-for all men are equally deserving of damnation-but to a few selected...
...this formidable view, a British monk called Pelagius† took flat exception. Augustine's austere teachings, he felt, would inevitably lead man into a fatal moral apathy. Instead, he argued that all men have the free will to earn their own salvation by good works. Grace, said Pelagius, consists simply of man's natural gifts, God's forgiveness of sins to the baptized, and His issuance of instructions and examples...
Debt & Illness. Coupled with union politics was the human tendency to take the cash and let the credit go. As 34,782 of Ford's 110,000 workers are under 40, they would have another 25 years to go before they were eligible for pensions. Many of them felt sure that, before then, they would have better jobs or be their own bosses...