Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state does not wholly look like genuine heroism in behalf of spiritual treasures. There is nothing in the Gospel to justify the Roman Catholic Church's ownership of more than one million acres of land, on which a hundred thousand tenants have been living like medieval serfs. The present government of Hungary stood for social justice and Christian democracy when it took the land away from the feudal bishops and gave it to the freed serfs...
...when he and other officers of the 26th Division assembled for mess in the village of Benestroff. "It was wretched," said Gissen, "everything and everybody was covered with mud, and even the 4th Armored Division's tanks had bogged down in it." Somebody noticed another muddied man present, wearing no insignia, and asked if it wasn't Eisenhower...
...present disturbed condition in the world, any normal question by a reporter arouses suspicion among lower officials of any government. I was stepping on somebody's toes [in Moscow]. I was making officials mad, [though] I thought I was doing them a favor. All countries have stupid officials and prosecutors who, once they have decided against you, go out to get their...
Last week India's little Communist Party saw a chance to move its country toward the frustration and chaos the Reds have helped to create in much of postwar Asia. The Indian government acted faster than the Reds and thwarted them-for the present...
Since the average student at present eats only 16 meals per week in College Dining Halls, those who eat more than 16 meals per week are subsidized by those who eat less. Therein lies the injustice of the present system. Yet the optional contract system would afford little saving even to the minority who wish to eat less than the average 16 meals weekly. Those who think it would be cheaper to eat all their meals at beaneries around the Square might prove their point only at the risk of ptomaine poisoning or malnutrition, while men who eat at clubs...