Word: inwardness
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...Russia's enormous flanks were being bent inward last week, Russia's center was charging hard. In defense of Moscow, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's three-week-old counter-attacks were reported to be only twelve miles from Smolensk at one point. The Russians said they were constantly shelling that city...
...board is the President's fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins. Ostensibly appointed to give the Fullermen the benefit of his observations in Britain, he is also Franklin Roosevelt's outward sign of the board's inward grace and potency. PPB will be no bull-session board, in time may well supplant OPM as No.11 planning agency, keeping OPM busy doing the tasks PPB lays...
...alone like a Greenlander in my kayak, solitary upon the great sea of life," explained Kierkegaard. He cultivated a melancholy "inwardness," saw Christianity everywhere as passionless, sterile, soft. He discerned three stages of experience: 1) esthetic, 2) ethical, 3) religious. Progress through them comes only with inward struggle, firm decision. Essence of Christian religiousness, to him, is suffering. So real Christians...
...inhabitants (some 60,000,000 out of 130,000,000 people) belong to any church or actively practice any religion. Last week the best-organized drive in U. S. history to revive the nation's spiritual life was launched in Kansas City. If outward means could bring inward grace, the National Christian Mission was set to do it. Even bigger than the National Preaching Mission of 1936, the National Christian Mission will tour 23 cities before next Easter in its crusade to "reach the un-reached...
Dead was Isolation in its old, blunted sense of separation from Europe and Europe's world. Aborning was a new and sensitive Isolation, a conscious turning inward for the strength and means to stand in and against the world of Hitler...