Word: gears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the Roman Catholics in their statements of the nature of God and of man, and of the meaning of the act of faith. However, they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
...High Gear. The election would also test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...
...emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming that "united strength clearly stated to the enemy ... through...
Rejection Slip. In Tulsa, car thieves abandoned G. W. Davis' automobile with a note to the owner: "This will learn you to keep the keys in your pocket . . . [but] please have the low gear repaired for our future...
...some backwoods areas of Colombia, arguments usually end in a draw-of guns or machetes. During election campaigns, such bloody incidents have been used by politicos to incite violence on a national scale. As their hottest congressional campaign in years moved into high gear last week, sober Colombians were dismayed to see the vicious old cycle repeating itself. In three months, the number of murders attributed to politics had risen to 40. Warned staid El Tiempo: "[Such] violence is the worst thing that can happen in a democratic country...