Word: looming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Roman Catholic Church hates war as much as the next Christian, its attitude towards war has always been realistic. Modern simon-pure pacifism, as unrealistic as it is high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained...
...least extraordinary feature of last week's hearings was its evidence of the education of the Dies Committee under the impact of its own findings. Beginning crudely 16 months ago, floundering around futilely at first with professional Red-baiters, crackpots and alarmists, it was nevertheless beginning to loom last week as one of the big U. S. legislative inquiries...
Gifted young Indian artists helped arrange the show, painted murals of buffalo hunters, and tribal dances (see cut). In the open court, Navaho rug weavers set up their loom, to be followed by other craftsmen, including a Cherokee with an eight-foot blowpipe who can hit a bull's-eye at 100 paces. Over half the work shown was contemporary. That it was a far cry from the usual stuff sold to tourists was due in many cases to its ritual character, and also to the fact that Indians, sensibly, sell only junk at junk prices...
...made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine." "I look upon them (mankind) only as instruments upon which I play when I feel so disposed. . ." And yet, "O ye men who thinks or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do ye wrong me; you do not know...
Early last autumn sober, learned Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the quarterly Foreign Affairs started in earnest to piece together all the threads of the Czechoslovak crisis for a 15-page article for his magazine. The more Munich was regarded in perspective, however, the larger did it loom as a milestone in history...