Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a religious experience. "This is the [familiar] experience of union with nature; it is not union with God," writes Zaehner. "The Doors of Perception cannot ... be classed as a holy book; for holiness implies peace. There is no peace here . . ." Far from approaching the Beatific Vision, Huxley "came nearer than he knew to the gates of Hell...
Constitutional. In Lewisburg, Ohio, John F. Lock won a 52-year battle to get his rural mailbox moved 1,056 ft. nearer his home after he proved that he had already walked 6,250 miles to pick up his mail...
...triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...
French intelligence reported that Giap was also using the lull to bring up heavy reinforcements and supplies and to redraw his battle lines-nearer and nearer the fortress...
...United States withdrew from Europe altogether-as well she might-with her three-quarter circle of hydrogen bases already spread around the globe, she would face Russia alone," said Sir Winston, "as she certainly could. I cannot doubt that war in those circumstances would be nearer than it is today, when the anxiety of the United States-to their abiding honor-is so largely centered on the freedom and safety of Western Europe and the British Isles...