Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Siege. The Japanese flood rose and widened, flowed inland from Indramayu to the railway between Batavia and Surabaya. Soon, in this central invasion sector, the Japanese were within 30 mountainous miles of Bandung. On the west they pushed inward toward Batavia. The Dutch destroyed everything of military use in Batavia, even though they insisted that the capital itself was not yet in danger. At Tjepu they wrecked the last major oil base left to them in the Indies. Then came an announcement which accented Java's extremity. The United Nations' joint southwest Pacific command in Java no longer...
...Commander in Chief of the German Army: "When the Führer on Feb. 4, 1938 assumed commanding power over the whole armed forces, this was done out of concern for the then threatening military struggle for the freedom of the German people. "In addition, the realization of an inward call and his own will to take upon himself the responsibility weighed with the statesman Adolf Hitler when he resolved to be his own generalissimo...
...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...