Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even a bicycle. Everything in Bhutan is carried along bridle paths by mules. Bhutan has no electricity, no roads, no factories, no industries, no movies. And there are no cities, only clusters of farmhouses surrounded by rice and wheat fields. When trouble occurs in some corner of the kingdom, it may take two months (in time of flood, six months) for the news to reach the government...
...They know well that both the great wars which have darkened our lives and disheveled the world could have been prevented if the U.S. had acted before they began." In the end, said Sir Winston, "I think we can be sure that the U.S. as well as the United Kingdom will intervene to prevent aggression by one side or the other. For my part, I put my trust in President Eisenhower that he will make the will power of America felt clearly and strongly-and felt in time...
...Captain Overton of H.M.S. Achilles stopped by, Marine Bunt, greeting him on the beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises to be one of the most interesting days of my life...
...while Britain spread its empire round the world, admission to the Mother of Parliaments was confined to inhabitants of the British Isles. Last week, in a historic shift, the House of Commons adopted a plan to make the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom, entitled to elect three members to the House of Commons...
...unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand the kingdom...