Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been some truth to this statement 15, 10 or even 5 years ago, but it certainly does not hold true today. During the past four or five years nearly every store on Higuera Street (the main street) has been either rebuilt or remodeled, all the old property around our Mission has been razed and a new mission garden laid...
Eweida insists that "the council's mission is purely religious-it has nothing to do with politics." Nonetheless, the council is violently opposed to Islamic organizations associated with other Moslem leaders, such as the mission-minded Ahmadiyya Movement of Pakistan or the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia. To Eweida, it is kismet that Islam should grow, and that Egypt should become the center of Islamic culture. Nasser thinks...
...Alcibiades, this Lawrence passes through a succession of fatuous poses. He begins as a simple pacifist pan-Arab fanatic, and through a hilarious concatenation of Grade B events (he is forced to shoot two intimate friends and watch a third sink smoothly into quickland) comes to realize that his mission will involve him in shedding blood. This, however, comes rather to appeal to him ("I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it," he mumbles brokenly), and he takes to strutting around the roof-tops of dynamited Turkish trains in billowing native garb. His new-found joy, alas, is rudely shattered...
...other programs fall to agencies--including the Department of Agriculture, the Defense Department, and the Housing and Home Finance Agency--which "have a special mission.... Since this must be their overriding concern, very little consideration is given to educational needs as a whole and to the impact the particular program might have...
...British have all along played a deeper and trickier game, and its is only recently that they have begun to lend more than equivocal support to U Thant's campaign. Considered in any light, the U.N. mission was bound to raise welts on British backs, and so the Foreign Secretary also clung nervously to possible alternatives. In the shadow of Lord Home's strikingly Gaullist pronouncements on the proper function of the U.N. lay two profound fears: that the new federation would injure British financial interests in Katanga, and that the casques bleus would march firmly into any settlement...