Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirits, Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week bounced by carriage to London's bomb-pocked Guildhall. There he spoke of appetizing victories on the battlefronts, of greater Allied attacks to come. He was proud of Britain as it is ("I rejoice in the soundness of our institutions and proclaim my faith in our destiny"). With this Britain he asked the U.S. to cooperate, now and forever...
Unfortunately the lead piece, Henry Miller's "The Loveliest Inanimate Object in Existence," will confuse and discourage the uninitiate. Readers unaccustomed to Advocate vagaries will proclaim this fragment from "The Air Conditioned Nightmare" a new and more foolish form of word game, while an older audience will have new cause to regret the Advocate's inability to refuse the mediocre material contributed by the literary elite. Even Reed Pfeuffer's provocative illustration fails to justify the space consumed by the overly obvious gibberish it illustrates. Day Lee has retold the story about the boy and the B.B. gun without sufficient...
...second half of his world broadcast this week, Winston Churchill told his people how they might have postwar peace and prosperity at home. Said the Prime Minister: "I am very much attracted to the idea that we should make and proclaim what might be called a Four-Year Plan. Four years seems to me to be the right length for a period of transition and reconstruction which will follow the downfall of Hitler." In general but noble terms, Winston Churchill then enunciated the foundations on which he thought the Plan should be constructed...
...friends," said Madame Chiang, "I feel that it is necessary for us not only to have ideals and to proclaim that we have them, it is necessary that we act to implement them...
...Church's purpose, says he, should be the same as it was nineteen hundred years ago: to proclaim "the nature of God, the nature of man, the right relationship between the two, as these are revealed in the person and teaching of Jesus called the Christ." The result of such proclamations, Bell is sure, would be trouble. But if the Church would get out in the world and make trouble, people would respect it. Bell wishes there were more churchmen like the Archbishop of Canterbury speaking out on economic questions. He confesses that all the "earnest chatter" of churchmen...