Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this day, Americans will not believe that Lincoln's achievements were built on consummate skill at political patronage and courthouse politics, just as Gandhi's were built on shrewd lawyer tricks and diplomatic maneuvering. Charles Francis Adams, great with a sense of historic mission, called on Lincoln before departing for the London legation. Lincoln had little to say of high politics. Adams, being an Adams, never got over the fact that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first...
...happy himself. At the customary Kremlin banquet, more than half the members of the busy Politburo had turned up-an unusual honor. Moreover, he had had an hour's visit with Stalin, who was in a big-brotherly mood. What had they talked about? Soon after the Polish mission got back, accounts began to go around: they had chattered about the world situation and about left-wing socialism; Stalin believed that there was a place for socialists in a "people's democracy" if they stay far enough left; Stalin did not believe there would...
Astronomer-Ballistician Hubble came back from his second war with the Medal of Merit, and settled down. With his wife, the former Grace Burke, he lives in a charming mission-style house in San Marino, near Pasadena, on the edge of a steep geological fault which he thinks may be incubating an earthquake...
...came back often got drunk and stayed drunk until the next mission. When three-quarters of the original crews had been lost, and the rest were losing their minds, Major Van Luppen, the commanding officer, was recalled to the States. He was enough of a ham to make a farewell speech. But when he said, "We've become something very tough that Heinie doesn't care to tangle with when he doesn't have to," there were guffaws. (They approved when he said drinks were on the house...
...Bourgeois of the world, unite!" This seemed destined to be the newest battle cry of the Communist Party, whose self-imposed historic mission is the destruction of the bourgeoisie. The "Peace Front" recently launched in Italy (see below) aims to entice not only the proletariat, but white-collar workers," small businessmen and anyone else gullible enough to fall for Communism's pseudo-democratic propaganda. In Paris, France's No. 2 Communist Jacques Duclos last week wooed the matronly middle class like a Red Bluebeard...