Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never before was there a larger Christian force in the Chinese Government than at present. Most of the outstanding important offices in the Government are held by Christians. . . . One of the fundamental objectives of the Christian movement is to bring men and women into such vital contact with the life-changing power of Jesus that their lives will be reintegrated around Jesus and around His great aim of doing God's will on earth. China certainly needs more military equipment, including bombers for the defense of her country, but she also needs a new dynamic, the power...
Britons like Sir William Beveridge put it in terms of human security; some, like Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in terms of a politically resurgent Christianity-"to be a Christian," he recently wrote, "is to share in a new movement of life...
...minus 273 degrees," he comments, "even the most violent chemical reactions, are forced to complete inactivity. No reactions, no life processes can take place; even molecular movement ceases. Without molecular movement, no evaporation can take place. Thus all reactions produced by light rays are precluded, and as the life processes have eased, the organism cannot be damaged by chemical or physical means...
...proved . . . by the diversion of part of our national army to the task of blockading and 'guarding' the guerrilla areas, by the fact that some still hold private profit above the national interest, by the oppression of the peasantry and by the absence of a true labor movement. . . . Some Chinese reactionaries are preparing [civil war] to destroy a democratic sector in our struggle. That sector is the guerrilla bases in North Shensi and behind the enemy lines...
...heard Hitler's first ravings in the Munich beer halls. When the Brownshirts began to parade the streets, Heiden led Munich University students in protest against the paraders. In 1923 he joined the staff of the Frankfurter Zeitung, with the special assignment of covering the National Socialist movement in Munich. He is credited with coining the word "Nazi" - as a term of contempt, because in Bavaria "nazi" was a slang term for a country bumpkin. He "marched" surreptitiously with the Nazis in their beer-hall Putsch, later saw the doors of Landsberg Prison clang behind Hitler. He wrote...