Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That picture showing the Witnesses' biggest baptism: Is it a baptism or a mass drowning exercise? Suicide would certainly be faster in reaching the revered kingdom without waiting for Armageddon to strike...
...whom a Western diplomat last week happily characterized as "the least attractive, least persuasive diplomat they have." In his gravelly tones Gromyko ran through a predictable catalogue of invective-"oil, oil and oil again; that was the thing which was tempting the monopolies of the U.S. and the United Kingdom"-and introduced a resolution demanding that the U.S. and Britain withdraw their troops from Lebanon and Jordan "without delay." But Gromyko closed on what from him-or any other Russian-was a surprisingly conciliatory note. Russia, he insisted, was less interested in getting her own resolution passed than in finding...
...smashup of French Indo-China in 1954 emerged four states: 1) Communist North Viet Nam, dark as night; 2) South Viet Nam, run by a strongly anti-Communist friend of the West; 3) the unpredictable Kingdom of Cambodia, which chose "active" neutrality; 4) a Red-riddled Kingdom of Laos, which felt it could afford nothing more dynamic than "plain" neutrality...
...windup exhortation to a record crowd of 253,922, President Knorr asked what seemed merely a rhetorical question: "God's kingdom rules-is the world's end near?"Answer: Yes, very near. Eagerly the faithful flocked back to their little churches across the earth, the Kingdom Halls, more than 16,000 of them, where shelter is assured when Armageddon strikes...
Economists hope that the common market will later be joined by a proposed European free-trade area, consisting of the United Kingdom and five other countries outside the common market, to form a community of more than 240 million potential customers. Many U.S. firms are holding back to see if this will happen; they would prefer to get into England under lower tariffs, thus gain access to the Commonwealth trading area as well as the common market. But foreign traders contend that now is the best time for U.S. firms to enter the market area. Says Lawyer Ball: "There...