Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they voted Demo-Christian last spring. When the electoral results became known, local Demo-Christians told them of the government's financial difficulties and the need for patience, so the people of Arsoli modified their request. Instead of begging for a pump which would cost 12 million lire (about $21,000), they declared themselves ready to wait, so as not to throw an excessive financial burden on the government...
Grand Strategy. Had Amsterdam actually accomplished anything? Had the long, slow, painful struggle toward church unity been worth all the effort and all the talk? Christians around the globe applauded the words of one of Amsterdam's leaders, New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "The need for unity is urgent . . . Our disunity is a denial of our Lord . . . We cannot win the world for Christ with the tactics of guerrilla warfare . . . This calls for general staff, grand strategy, and army. And this means union...
...times, he seemed more like a Hoosier schoolmaster than an eminent historian. He was long and lean, baggily dressed, and always in need of a haircut-"a poor professor," he liked to say, "on his way from obscurity to oblivion." But when Charles Austin Beard threw back his head, squinted down his long nose, and began to lecture at Columbia University, students jammed in to hear him. And when he perched on the edge of a desk to speak of his own research ("Now I'll tell you what I found out last night"), historians from all over...
...opportunists are distinguished from the people who believe in the war as a crusade (like Lieut. Yates or his friend Sergeant Bing) not because they do not know what they are fighting for, but because they do not need to know. Author Heym follows them through the liberation of Paris (barricade scenes, snipers, girls giving themselves to the conquerors in hotel rooms and in jeeps); through the Battle of the Bulge (scenes of slaughter at the front, the shooting of American prisoners); to the liberation of the first concentration camp (emaciated prisoners, panic-stricken Nazis, the guards killed...
...Crusaders is interesting for its scope, for the ambition that Author Heym reveals, for his boldness in attempting a major work, and for the odd foreign quality, sometimes engaging, of his observations. But The Crusaders would need much more to justify the praise that the booksellers have given...