Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churches. A better administrator, he may prove more effective than his predecessor in this respect. Another asset is his adroit ness and tact, which he used effectively in piloting through the Church Assembly a complicated measure to reorganize par ish boundaries. And he is no stuffed shirt. He once organized a football team, called "Lambeth United," played on it with his six sons. Another time he appeared in Chester town square, bishop's gaiters & all, grinding a hand organ to help raise money for the Royal Infirmary...
...paper. "I spoke to an editor from the largest paper in Colorado," he recalls, "and he told me that three-quarters of the editorials he wrote did not represent his opinion. At that point, I decided that if you have ideas to express, you should have your own organ...
...Communism! Having thus as a matter of foreign policy described the Roman Church, once the staunch defender of the divine right of rulers, as an organ of democratic society, Pius XII was at lengthy pains to make plain that by democracy he did not mean Communism: "[The State] should in practice be the organic and organizing unity of a real people. The people and the shapeless multitude (or as it is called the masses) are two distinct concepts. The people lives and moves of its own life energy. . . . The masses, on the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside...
...Vatican would support: "The authority of [a society of nations] must be real and effective over the member states in such wise, however, that each of them retains an equal right to its own sovereignty. . . . An essential point in any future international arrangement would be the formation of an organ for the maintenance of peace, of an organ invested by common consent with supreme power ... to smother in its germinal state any threat of isolated or collective aggression...
...London's Central Hall, Westminster, the organ played solemn music as the Labor delegates mustered for the Party's annual conference. Behind the platform hung an impressive banner proclaiming "A People's Peace." Crowds of young delegates, many of them in uniform, were eager to define policy and state where Labor stood. A general election, Britain's first in nine years, was in the offing. Labor thought it had a real chance...