Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemned and criticized I shall not murmur, because I remember that Sam Houston, the father of Texas, paid the same penalty. If I am hated and abused, I shall forgive my enemies and find comfort in the recollection that Jim Hogg,* when he laid down the reins of power, was also hated and abused...
Fear and Loyalty are the tests of Power. Men fear or are loyal to what they believe is strong. Today, measured by the tests of fear and loyalty, there is one man just three years dead last week, whose awful presence is stronger than the prestige of any living statesmen...
...though with reluctance, of Vladimir Ilvich Ulyanov Lenin as a man whom History will dub "The Great." But biographers would reflect: A child, he was one of the six children of a starved schoolmaster. A man, he lived for years expatriate and struggling outside the country he loved. A Power, he died paralyzed and speechless...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings...
Indra, sensing a challenge to his power in the superhuman purity of Saradvat, an holy man, sent a celestial nymph to tempt him. The celibate, seated in austere nakedness upon the ground, "fixed his eyes upon himself" and resisted temptation...