Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian bulletin, more than 50 irate telephone calls began jamming the switchboard. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal for one moment of silence each day at 11 a.m. The League Against Cruel Sports roundly expressed "horror and contempt" for the behavior of Russian scientists, "beside which the sickening stories of the inhuman cruelties...
...around him in a world of slums, child labor and union-busting. It is all very well, he wrote, for a man "to lean back on the Eternal and to draw from the silent reservoirs. But what we get there is for use. Personal sanctification must serve the Kingdom...
...Kingdom of God was to him a corporate enterprise of salvation-something that could be brought a lot closer by wise legislation and the use of social pressure to protect the oppressed workingman and limit the power of his boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell...
...other major factor in buoying up the West Indian economy has been a series of United Kingdom grants in the amount of several millions of pounds which have been used to build badly needed schools, hospitals and roads, as well as a number of experimental projects like housing projects. The latter have not proved either attractive to the natives or able to keep pace with the need. The University College, recently moved out of refugee barracks, answers a deep and long-felt need...
There are few more backward nations in the world than the 91,400-sq-mi. kingdom of Laos. Population figures in Laos are almost anybody's guess (estimates run from 1,400,000 to 2,500,000), and some Laotians are jungle-dwelling, G-string-clad tribesmen whose chief armaments are bows and arrows. The nation's main export is opium. Laos receives the largest per capita allotment of U.S. aid of all nations in the world (some $43 million for fiscal 1957), but because its economy is so primitive, Laos has practically no trained personnel to administer...