Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Nikita Khrushchev really saw of the U.S. was next to nothing. By his own order, he bypassed such monuments to U.S. achievement as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and by his own disinterest, he did not look upon the unparalleled industrial complex between Washington and New York City. Instead, he set his own course through the serried ranks of U.S. diplomats, businessmen, civic brasshats and movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely...
...since we believe that the feeling for freedom, that respect for freedom, love of freedom, is instinctive in men, we do think that the systematized order that is observed in Russia is a step backward, not forward. Now, Mr. Khrushchev . . . is always saying that history is going to decide between us. I believe history, in the long run, is going to decide in favor of the free system...
...began to read the painful scrawl: "Please do not get excite over this order I'm giving you. In this suitcase you see in my hand is fill to the top with high explosive. I mean high high . . . I do not believe I can kill and not kill what is around me, and I mean my son will go too . . . Please do not make me push this button that all I have...
...agnostic's view came in a close second; after it came the traditional Christian formulation and then the belief in "a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe...which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call 'God.'" And 33 people felt moved to sketch their own conceptions of the Deity since the poll hopelessly failed to offer them a satisfactory approximation...
...priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's over-whelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine Grace...