Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Service Committee-which he helped found. His conclusion about the committee: "It is a revelation on a small scale of what would happen on a great scale if ... the whole Church of Christ should be dedicated to the urgent business of rebuilding the world on the lines of the Kingdom...
...managing director of TIME-LIFE International (our 'round-the-world publishing and newsgathering operation), made the trip to present to British businessmen and government officials our recent survey The Market for United Kingdom Consumer Goods in the United States (A Letter from the Publisher, May 31); to visit some of our News Bureaus abroad; and to talk business with our distributing agent in Czechoslovakia, where TIME and LIFE are still banned...
...Devil's Kingdom...
...plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
Swift held politicians in scorn, but served two of them-the Tory Lords Bolingbroke and Oxford-so as to sway a kingdom. He despaired of mankind, but his friendships with Addison, Arbuthnot, Pope and Gay were among the happiest of the age. Women disgusted him, but he loved one woman all his life. Exiled from England to the deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he conquered, with Gulliver (1726), the world he wished to shame. And though he detested Ireland, he wrote so fiercely in her defense (in The Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal...