Word: overrunning
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These failings of the bill are serious. Because any form of military regimentation is serious-in that it makes for totalitarianism and promotes disdain for the parliamentary system-conscription is essentially dangerous to a democracy. But in an organic world, overrun as is ours by mad dogs, it is fatal to be complacently defenseless. The need for strength is here. Let not the strength be used for the perversion of democratic ideals, but rather for their preservation...
...Station" the Nazis have repeatedly tried to suppress. Giving no location, announcing simply that his program was "Germany Speaking," the Freiheitsender commentator, who may have been speaking from Switzerland, mocked Göring on the failure of his second four-year plan, which ended last week, contended Hitler had overrun Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France because ersatz food and gasoline had failed him, declared the only people not weeping in Germany "are the rascals who are now in power." Winding up its program, the Freiheitsender remarked: "Sometimes we think the Nazis are overdoing it. Even...
...louder Author Mumford screamed; the louder he screamed, the more he was po litely disregarded and the more isolated he felt; the more isolated he felt, the louder he screamed. Faith for Living is his most piercing shriek to date. The book suggests that Author Mumford has been practically overrun by Nazis already and the U. S. will get its turn in a few minutes. To thwart this fate, Author Mumford urges total moral regeneration for U. S. liberals. His program embraces three main points: 1) restoration of the family; 2) re-establishment of ties with the soil...
Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun by Latins, Franks, Slavs, Bulgars, Turks. Their culture and even their language disintegrated. Their country was pauperized and depopulated. For 20 centuries the government they had devised was only a memory. Then democracy once more stirred in the world, on the shores of the Atlantic. A few patriots and idealists...
...countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Let me be blunt. . From letters which I receive, and from articles and letters in the press, it is clear that many people in the United States believe that somehow or other, even if Great Britain is invaded and overrun, the British Navy will cross the Atlantic and still be available through Canada or otherwise, as part of your own defensive system. I hope you are not building on that expectation. If you are . . . you have been building on an illusion...